Democratic Autonomy Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy

Name: Democratic Autonomy Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy
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ISBN: 9780195150919

ISBN-10: 0195150910

ISBN-13: 9780195150919

Edition: 2002

Authors: Henry S. Richardson, Henry Richardson

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What would our decision-making procedures look like if they were actually guided by the much-discussed concept of "deliberative democracy"? What does rule by the people for the people entail? And how can a modern government's reliance on administrative agencies be reconciled with this populist ideal? What form must democratic reasoning take in the modern administrative state? Democratic Autonomy squarely faces these challenges to the deliberative democratic ideal. It identifies processes of reasoning that avert bureaucratic domination and bring diverse people into political agreement. To bridge our differences intelligently, Richardson argues, we cannot rely on instrumentalist approaches to…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Henry S. Richardsonis Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.




Introduction



Why Public Reasoning?



Freedom and Legitimacy



Three Conceptions of Nonarbitrariness



The Case for a Qualified Populism



Democratic Rule Must Be Reasoned



Equality in a Deliberative Democracy



The Nature of Public Reasoning



Types of Practical Reasoning



The Naivete of Agency Instrumentalism



The Stupidity of the Cost-Benefit Standard



Truth and Delegated Deliberation



Deep Compromise



Forging Joint Intentions and Shared Ends



Instituting Public Reasoning



The Public



Representative Government



Majority Rule As a Closure Device



Democratic Rulemaking



The Democratic Treatment of Risk



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index