Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn
- ISBN-10
- 0199547947
- ISBN-13
- 9780199547944
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 313
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-07-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Robert E. Goodin, Robert Edward Goodin
Description
Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their theories into practice, deliberative democrats therefore tend to focus on 'mini-publics', usually of a couple dozen to a couple hundred people. In Innovating Democracy, Robert Goodin surveys thesenew deliberative mechanisms, asking how they work and what we can properly expect of them. He concludes we should treat talk as discovery procedure rather than as a decision procedure. Goodin goes on to show how to adapt our thinking about the familiar institutions of representative democracy to takefull advantage of such deliberative inputs. That involves rethinking who should get a say, how we hold people accountable, how we sequence deliberative moments and the roles of parties and legislatures in that.
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