'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of p...

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Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:	Theories of institutional design
Subjects:	Deliberative democracy Deliberative Demokratie Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	DE-20 Volltext
Summary:	'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states, and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the world's leading deliberative theorists, Deliberative Systems explains the principles of this new approach, which seeks ways of ensuring that a division of deliberative labour in a system nonetheless meets both deliberative and democratic norms. Rather than simply elaborating the theory, the contributors examine the problems of implementation in a real world of competing norms, competing institutions and competing powerful interests. This pioneering book will inspire an exciting new phase of deliberative research, both theoretical and empirical
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 193 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781139178914
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139178914