Towards a deliberative and associational democracy
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Edinburgh University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Edinburgh |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | vii, 262 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780748627394 (hbk.) 0748627391 (hbk.) |
Index Number: | D082 |
CLC: | D082 |
Call Number: | D082/E499 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-256) and index. Cultivating autonomy: the normative core of democracy -- Deliberative democracy and autonomous decision-making -- Institutionalising deliberative democracy through secondary associations -- A dualist model of deliberative and associational democracy -- Democratising secondary associations -- Avoiding the mischief of factionalism. Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discourses in democracy. This work looks at the key debates on justification and institutionalisation occurring within one of the most vital of contemporary democratic theories. |