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Democracy and Diversity (Hardcover)
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The chapters in this book deal with different, though related,
topics concerning the tense relationship between democracy and
diversity. On the one hand, social diversity represents an
opportunity, widening the horizon of social options and
perspectives of innovation, but, on the other hand, it creates
problems for the social cohesion and peaceful coexistence of many
groups, be they majority or minority. The chapters depart from the
intrinsic connection between democracy and diversity - and the
unavoidable challenges that pluralism poses to decision-making
procedures - investigating, from different perspectives, how the
normative requirement of fully respecting agents' reflexive agency
impacts the revision of democratic decision-making procedures and
the way in which institutions react to citizens' justice-based
claims. All the contributions share the theoretical insight that
diversity is one of the raisons d'etre of democracy, and, still,
all acknowledge that the fact of pluralism poses challenges to the
legitimacy of democratic procedures of decision-making. Indeed, if
citizens had the same values and preferences, collective decisions
would be easily achieved and the institution of democratic
procedures would be redundant. Yet the wide pluralism of doctrines,
habits, social standards, and conceptions of the goods typical of
contemporary societies has often led citizens to challenge the
legitimacy of democratic decisions because these choices do not fit
their preferences or values. To address these challenges following
recent accounts of democratic decision-making, in this volume,
different strategies are introduced, defended, and criticized in
order to outline a perspective that is able to guide actual
decision-making processes (guidance), define standards that
everyone has equal opportunity to fulfil (inclusion), and grant
that citizens exercise their reflexive control on the whole
democratic system (reflexivity). The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy.
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