Public Deliberation Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy

Name: Public Deliberation Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy
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ISBN: 9780262522786

ISBN-10: 0262522780

ISBN-13: 9780262522786

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: James Bohman, Thomas Mccarthy

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How can we create a vital and inclusive pluralistic democracy? In Public Deliberation, James Bohman offers answers to this question, showing how democratic theory and democratic practice can be remade to face new challenges. Arguing against the skepticism about democracy that flourishes today on both ends of the political spectrum, Bohman proposes a model of public deliberation that will allow expansions of democratic practice, even in the face of increasing pluralism, inequality, and social complexity. Bohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural pluralism, social inequalities, social…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/27/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Deliberation and Democracy



What Is Public Deliberation? A Dialogical Account



Public Deliberation and Cultural Pluralism



Deliberative Inequalities



Social Complexity, Deliberative Majorities, and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty



Social Critics, Collective Actors, and Public Deliberation: Innovation and Change in Deliberative Democracy


Conclusion: Deliberative Democracy and Its Critics


Notes


References


Index