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'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.
'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.
1. A systemic approach to deliberative democracy Jane Mansbridge, James Bohman, Simone Chambers, Thomas Christiano, Archon Fung, John Parkinson, Dennis F. Thompson and Mark E. Warren; 2. Rational deliberation among experts and citizens Thomas Christiano; 3. Deliberation and mass democracy Simone Chambers; 4. Representation in the deliberative system James Bohman; 5. Two trust-based uses of minipublics in democratic systems Michael K. MacKenzie and Mark E. Warren; 6. On the embeddedness of deliberative systems: why elitist innovations matter more Yannis Papadopoulos; 7. Democratizing deliberative systems John Parkinson.
A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.
John Parkinson is Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Jane J. Mansbridge is Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
'Deliberative Systems is a true landmark: an integrated set of
essays that analyzes, celebrates, and advocates the turn to systems
in deliberative democracy. An impressive set of contributors
demonstrates the power of this systems approach on many dimensions,
generating effective responses to critics of deliberation. This
volume should set the agenda for inquiry on democracy for years to
come.' John S. Dryzek, Australian Research Council Federation
Fellow, Australian National University
'Deliberative Systems infuses deliberative democratic theory with a
macro-level conception of how a social system can engage in
deliberative exchanges. By working through concrete cases from
across the globe that involve media, elections, elites, and modern
experiments in public participation, the book moves beyond
theoretical abstraction to provide sharp insights into the
practical work of making modern societies more deliberative and
democratic.' John Gastil, Pennsylvania State University
'What does it mean for our understanding of reason-giving in a
deliberative democracy to take seriously the division of political
labour between the people and their various representatives? Using
the notion of a deliberative system as a loosely-coupled group of
institutions and practices that perform the functions of seeking
truth, establishing mutual respect, and generating inclusive,
egalitarian decision-making, the authors of this collection provide
the reader not only with an up-to-date compendium of thinking in
deliberative democracy by some of its leading theorists, but also
with thought-provoking original contributions to our understanding
of deliberation representative political systems. This is a book
that anyone concerned with deliberative democracy will have to
engage with.' Albert Weale, University College London
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