Deliberative Politics : Essays on Democracy and Disagreement
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reaction to the dominance of liberal constitutionalism. But many questions surround this new project. What does deliberative democracy stand for? What difference would deliberative practices make in the real world of political conflict and public policy design? What is the relationship between deliberative politics and liberal constitutional arrangements?
1 online resource (565 pages)
9780195351132, 0195351134
1055052186
Cover page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Dedication; Introduction; Part I: Challenging The Value of Deliberative Democracy; 1: Talking as a Decision Procedure; 2: Enough of Deliberation: Politics Is about Interests and Power; 3: Diversity, Toleration, and Deliberative Democracy: Religious Minorities and Public Schooling; 4: Three Limitations of Deliberative Democracy: Identity Politics, Bad Faith, and Indeterminacy; 5: Deliberation, and What Else?; 6: Democratic Deliberation: The Problem of Implementation; 7: Mutual Respect as a Device of Exclusion. 8: Deliberation: Method, Not TheoryPart II: Expanding The Limits of Deliberative Democracy; 9: Agreement without Theory; 10: Justice, Inclusion, and Deliberative Democracy; 11: Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy; 12: Internal Disagreements: Deliberation and Abortion; 13: Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement: Reciprocity, Slavery, and Abortion; 14: Enabling Democratic Deliberation: How Managed Care Organizations Ought to Make Decisions about Coverage for New Technologies; 15: Everyday Talk in the Deliberative System; Part III: Reply To The Critics; 16: Democratic Disagreement
Includes index