Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study
of democracy. Working at its cutting edges, Foundations and
Frontiers of Deliberative Governance reaches from conceptual
underpinnings to the key challenges faced in applications to
ever-increasing ranges of problems and issues. Following a survey
of the life and times of deliberative democracy, the turns it has
taken, and the logic of deliberative systems, contentious
foundational issues receive attention. How can deliberative
legitimacy be achieved in large-scale societies where face-to-face
deliberation is implausible? What can and should representation
mean in such systems? What kinds of communication should be valued,
and why? How can competing appeals of pluralism and consensus in
democratic politics be reconciled? New concepts are developed along
the way: discursive legitimacy, discursive representation, systemic
tests for rhetoric in democratic communication, and several forms
of meta-consensus. Particular forums (be they legislative
assemblies or designed mini-publics) have an important place in
deliberative democracy, but more important are macro-level
deliberative systems that encompass the engagement of discourses in
the public sphere as well as formal and informal institutions of
governance. Deliberative democracy can be applied fruitfully in
areas previously off-limits to democratic theory: networked
governance, the democratization of authoritarian states, and global
democracy, as well as in new ways to invigorate citizen
participation. In these areas and more, deliberative democracy
out-performs its competitors.
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