From participation to deliberation : a critical genealogy of deliberative democracy / Antonio Floridia ; translated by Sarah De Sanctis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Floridia, Antonio, author.

Contributor:

De Sanctis, Sarah, translator.

Series:

ECPR monographs

ECPR Press Series. [Monographs]

Standardized Title:

Idea deliberativa della democrazia. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Deliberative democracy.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Colchester, United Kingdom : ECPR Press, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

In 2006, Barack Obama wrote that the 'framework of our constitution' is designed 'to force us into a "deliberative democracy" in which all citizens are required to engage in a process of testing their ideas against an external reality, persuading others of their point of view'. His statement is just one of the many examples of the contemporary relevance of deliberative democracy. But where does this model come from? When was it born and how did it develop? Starting from the 1980s, this book provides the first, complete history of the idea of deliberative democracy, analysing its relationship with the earlier idea, and practices, of participatory democracy in the 1960s and 1970s. The author provides a lucid and detailed analysis of the texts and authors that have contributed to this theoretical field and, in the final chapter, proposes a possible guiding map of today's complex deliberative field, in its present configuration.-- Provided by Publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE RISE AND FALL OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN THE 1960s AND 1970s

ch. One Participatory Democracy in the 1960s and 1970s: The Origins of a Model

1.1. The background and the scene: participatory democracy in political and theoretical debates in the United States in the 1960s

1.2. The critique of elitist theories of democracy and the meaning of the pluralist approach

1.3. Participatory democracy as a new form of democracy: Pateman and Macpherson

1.4. Levels and forms of participation: Sherry R. Arnstein's `ladder'

ch. Two Beyond Participatory Democracy: The Debate in the 1980s

2.1. Benjamin Barber: searching for a `strong democracy'

2.2. Jane Mansbridge: `unitary democracy' and `adversary democracy'

2.3. Beyond participatory democracy: two different paths

pt. II THE BUILDING PROCESS OF THE THEORETICAL FIELD OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY

ch. Three At the Origins of `Deliberative Democracy': Interpretations of the American Constitution

3.1. Joseph M. Bessette: the American Constitution as a blueprint of deliberative democracy

3.2. Cass R. Sunstein: deliberative democracy and republicanism

ch. Four Jon Elster: `Non-Orthodox' Versions of Rationality and Models of Political Theory

4.1. The forum and the market

4.2. The `ideal speech situation': a pragmatic presupposition of communicative action or a political ideal?

4.3. The nature of politics and the aim of participation

ch. Five Bernard Manin: Public Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy

5.1. Rousseau, the `general will' and the deliberation `of all'

5.2. Debating with Rawls: deliberation, the original position and `rational choice'

5.3. The `deliberation of all' as a source of democratic legitimacy

5.4. Debating with Habermas: the public sphere, `consensus of all' and democratic deliberation

ch. Six Joshua Cohen: An `Ideal Deliberative Procedure'

6.1. `Deliberative democracy' as an ideal

6.2. The democratic ideal of a `deliberative association'

6.3. From the ideal deliberative procedure to institutions

ch. Seven Intersections, Convergences and New Developments: Expanding the Theoretical Field of Deliberative Democracy

7.1. John Forester: communicative interaction, policy analysis and planning practices

7.2. John S. Dryzek's `discursive democracy'

7.3. James Fishkin: deliberative democracy and political theory

7.3.1. Fishkin and Dahl: minipopulus and `enlightened understanding'

7.3.2. Fishkin, Ackerman and the `dualist conception' of democratic politics

ch. Eight The `Constitutive Phase' of Deliberative Democracy: An Assessment

8.1. The five `critical frontiers' of deliberative democracy

8.2. `Participatory' and `deliberative': continuity, contiguity or break?

pt. III HABERMAS AND RAWLS: THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY

ch. Nine Habermas and `Deliberative Politics'

9.1. Between Facts and Norms: a `defection' from the field of deliberative democracy?

9.2. A procedural conception of democracy and the tension between `facticity' and `validity'

9.3. Models and concepts of `deliberative polities': constitutional legitimacy and republicanism

9.4. Deliberative politics: ethical self-understanding or an ordinary trait of a democracy?

9.5. Deliberative politics: pragmatic discourses, ethical discourses and moral discourses

9.6. Habermas and the `democratic question': against `normative defeatism'

ch. Ten Deliberative Politics: the State, the Public Sphere and Civil Society

10.1. Habermas, the `two-track model' and `sluices'

10.2. Habermas versus Cohen: can deliberative politics `shape' the whole of society?

10.3. Cohen and Sabel's `democratic experimentalism': a model of deliberative governance

10.4. Cohen versus Habermas: The `public sphere'

informal or structured?

ch. Eleven Rawls: The Idea of `Public Reason' and Deliberative Democracy

11.1. Introduction

11.2. The idea of public reason

11.3. Public reason and the dilemmas of `reasonable pluralism'

11.4. Public reason as a deliberative paradigm

11.5. Public reason and deliberative democracy

11.6. The Rawlsian approach to deliberative democracy

ch. Twelve The Dialogue between Habermas and Rawls: Just a `Family Quarrel'?

12.1. Introduction

12.2. `Original position' and `ideal speech situation'

12.3. `Reasonableness' and `consensus'; `justification' and `legitimation': the forms and ways of deliberative practice

12.3.1. Habermas versus Rawls

12.3.2. Rawls versus Habermas

12.3.3. Implications for deliberative democracy

12.4. Philosophers and citizens

pt. IV THE THEORETICAL FIELD OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY TODAY

ch. Thirteen The Deliberative Field: A Possible `Map'

13.1. Introduction

13.2. A `working theory'

13.3. The legacy of Habermas and Rawls but not only

13.4. An ideal model or a theoretical model of democracy?

13.5. An `empirical' or a `policy-oriented' turn?

13.6. The `systemic approach' to deliberative democracy

13.6.1. A `deliberative system': definition and functions

13.6.2. Deliberation, participation and the forms of democratic politics

13.6.3. The link between participation, deliberation and conflict

13.6.4. What makes a decision `good' or `correct'? The epistemic functions of deliberation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-382) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781785522420

1785522426

9781786616449

9781785522758

1785522752

OCLC:

942381629

Publisher Number:

99986229824