Reflective Democracy

Klappentext Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues! among them allowing democracy to 'track the truth'! where purely factual issues are all that is at stake. Political disputesinvariably mix facts with values! however! and then it is essential to listen to what people are saying rather than merely note how they are voting. The great challenge is how to implement that deliberative ideal among millions of people at once. In this strikingly original book! Goodin offers asolution: 'democratic deliberation within'. Building on models of ordinary conversational dynamics! he suggests that people simply imagine themselves in the position of various other people they have heard or read about and ask! 'What would they say about this proposal?' Informing the democraticimaginary then becomes the key to making deliberations more reflective - more empathetic! more considered! more expansive across time and distance. Zusammenfassung In this strikingly original book, one of the leading scholars in the field focuses on the influential idea of deliberative democracy. Goodin examines the great challenge of how to implement the deliberative ideal among millions of people at once and comes up with a novel solution: 'democratic deliberation within'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Preference Democracy 2: The Autonomy of Preferences 3: The Authority of Preferences Belief Democracy 4: Negotiating Beliefs 5: Democracy as a Condorcet Truth-Tracker 6: Democracy as a Bayesian Persuader 7: Rationalizating Persisting Opposition Value Democracy 8: Input Democracy 9: Democratic Deliberation Within 10: Representing Excluded Interests 11: Representing Mute Interests 12: Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Robert E. Goodin, Goodin Robert E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2005
• EAN: 9780199279746
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927974-6
• No. of pages: 279
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Oxford Political Theory; Oxford Political Theory (Paper; Oxford Political Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements