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Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation - A Theory of Discourse Failure (Hardcover)
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In public political deliberation, people will err and lie in
accordance with definite patterns. Such discourse failure results
from behavior that is both instrumentally and epistemically
rational. The deliberative practices of a liberal democracy (let
alone repressive or non-democratic societies) cannot be improved so
as to overcome the tendency for rational citizens to believe and
say things at odds with reliable propositions of social science.
The theory has several corollaries. One is that much contemporary
political philosophy can be seen as an unsuccessful attempt to
vindicate, on symbolic and moral grounds, the forms that discourse
failure take on in public political deliberation. Another is that
deliberative practices cannot be rescued even on non-epistemic
grounds, such as social peace, impartiality, participation, and
equality. To alleviate discourse failure, this book proposes to
reduce the scope of majoritarian politics and enlarge markets.
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