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Author Dryzek, John S., 1953-

Title Deliberative democracy and beyond : liberals, critics, contestations / John S. Dryzek
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 195 pages)
Series Oxford political theory
Oxford political theory.
Contents Liberal democracy and the critical alternative -- Minimal democracy? The social choice critique -- Difference democracy: the consciousness-raising group against the gentlemen's club -- Insurgent democracy: civil society and state -- Transnational democracy: beyond the cosmopolitan model -- Green democracy -- Discursive democracy in a reflexive modernity
Summary This critical tour through recent democratic theory examines the deliberative turn in democratic theory which argued that democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberations on the part of those affected by a collective decision
"Deliberative Democracy and Beyond examines the deliberative turn in democratic theory, which argues that the essence of democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberations on the part of those affected by a collective decision." "Drawing a distinction between liberal constitutionalist deliberative democracy and discursive democracy, the author criticizes the former and advocates the latter. He argues that a defensible theory of democracy should be critical of established power, pluralistic, reflexive in its questioning orientation to established traditions, transnational in its capacity to extend across state boundaries, ecological, and dynamic in its openness to everchanging constraints upon and opportunities for democratization. Dryzek's reinvigorated approach enables deliberative democracy to respond more effectively to the criticisms that have been leveled against it."--Jacket
Analysis Democracy
Consensus
Social choice
Liberalism
Environmentalism
Civil society
Overseas item
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Democracy.
Consensus (Social sciences)
Social choice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Consensus (Social sciences)
Democracy
Social choice
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585364788
9780585364780
9780191522413
0191522414
019925043X
9780199250431