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Deliberating in the Real World - Problems of Legitimacy in Deliberative Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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Deliberating in the Real World - Problems of Legitimacy in Deliberative Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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Deliberative democracy has become the central reference point for
democracy theorists over the last decade or so, influencing
normative frameworks and the ways we conceptualize the workings of
democratic societies. It has also been linked with a burst of
experimentation with new procedures that involve citizens directly
in deliberations about public policy. But there is a contradiction
at the heart of deliberative democracy: it seems that it cannot
deliver legitimate agreements. Deliberative decisions are said to
be legitimate when all those subject to them take part in free and
equal debate, but in complex societies that can never happen. Few
people can deliberate together at any one time, certainly not in
any strict sense, so how can the results of a deliberative event be
legitimate for non-participants? And why would people with
passionately held views sit down and deliberate when there seems
little advantage in them doing so? This book explores these
problems in theory and practice, searching for a solution that does
not merely dismiss a strict understanding of deliberative
democratic criteria. It reconsiders the theory of legitimacy and
deliberative democracy, but goes further by examining cases of
deliberation on health policy in the United Kingdom to see what
problems emerge in practice, and how real political actors deal
with them. The result is a complete rethink of the institutional
limits and possibilities of deliberative democracy, one which
abandons the search for perfection in any one institution, and
looks instead to the concept of a multifaceted deliberative system.
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