| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Series |
Theories of Institutional Design |
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Theories of institutional design.
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| Contents |
Cover; DELIBERATIVE SYSTEMS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1: A systemic approach to deliberative democracy; What is a deliberative system?; Boundaries of the system; Functions of the deliberative system; Three systemic analyses; Experts; Pressure and protest; Political media; Defects in the deliberative system; Conclusion; 2: Rational deliberation among experts and citizens; The point of democratic deliberation; The division of labour; The Downsian critique; A more complex picture of the division of labour; Truth sensitivity; A normative account of the division of labour |
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The principal-agent problemThe problem of truth sensitivity; Expertise; Mechanisms; Solidarity; Overlapping understanding; Competition; Sanctions; The connections between ordinary citizens and specialized deliberation: from experts to citizens; From citizens to expert knowledge; Concluding remarks; 3: Deliberation and mass democracy; Deliberative democracy, representative democracy, and mass democracy; Measuring mass deliberation; What counts as democratic deliberation?; Reason-giving; Binding decisions and democratic power; Impact through participation; Impact through votes |
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Impact as responsivenessConclusion; 4: Representation in the deliberative system; Democracy and deliberative systems; From communicative freedom to communicative power; Citizenship as a multilevel status: perspectives or opinions?; From minipublics to minidemoi; Representing transnational demoi: citizen representation and the EU; Conclusion: democracy, representation, and non-domination; 5: Two trust-based uses of minipublics in democratic systems; Introduction; An economic problem: dividing labours between participation and trust; Trust in politics and government |
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Two trouble spots for trust-based citizenshipMinipublics as objects of trust; Representativeness; Screens against conflicts of interest; Deliberativeness; Agreement on the issue; Minipublics as trusted information proxies; Minipublics as anticipatory publics; Conclusion; 6: On the embeddedness of deliberative systems: why elitist innovations matter more; Introduction; Weakly deliberative and weakly participatory: new public management and its derivatives; Deliberative -- but in reality elitist? Cooperative governance through policy networks |
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Deliberative and elitist 1: agencification and the 'regulatory state'Deliberative and elitist 2: judicialization; Deliberative and elitist 3: cooperative, informal, and private governance at the transnational level; Conclusion; 7: Democratizing deliberative systems; Public reason and equal treatment; Responsiveness, determinacy, and communication; Summary: the criteria for a democratic deliberative system; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Deliberative democracy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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Politics and Government.
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Deliberative democracy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mansbridge, Jane
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| ISBN |
9781139528801 |
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1139528807 |
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9781139526418 |
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1139526413 |
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9781139178914 |
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9781139531085 |
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1107232090 |
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9781107232099 |
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9781139540407 |
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1283522225 |
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9781283522229 |
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9781139527613 |
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9786613834676 |
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1139532278 |
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9781139532273 |
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9781107678910 |
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1107678919 |
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