Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation - A Theory of Discourse Failure

Informationen zum Autor Guido Pincione is professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella! Buenos Aires. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs! Murphy Institute! Tulane University and at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center! Bowling Green State University. Fernando R. Teson is a leading scholar in the field of international law and ethics. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention and A Philosophy of International Law. Klappentext This 2006 books offers a comprehensive and sustained critique of theories of deliberative democracy. Zusammenfassung In public political deliberation! people will err and lie in accordance with definite patterns. Such discourse failure results from behavior that is instrumentally and epistemically rational. This book proposes to reduce the scope of majoritarian politics and enlarge markets! offering a comprehensive critique of theories of deliberative democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The epistemic argument for deliberation; 3. The rational choice framework; 4. The resilience of discourse failure; 5. Symbolism in political argument; 6. Discourse failure and political morality; 7. Non-epistemic defenses of deliberation; 8. Deliberation, consent, and majority rule; 9. Overcoming discourse failure: voluntary communities.

Product details

• Authors: Guido Pincione, Fernando Pincione Teson, Fernando R. Teson, Fernando R. Pincione Teson, Fernando R. Tesón
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521862691
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86269-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy