Deliberative Democracy

The theory of deliberative democracy is a field of democratic theory that studies the contribution of public discussion, argumentation, and reasoning to the normative justification of democratic decision‐making. In this essay, we first explore two competing visions of the moral ideal of deliberative...

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Published inA Companion to Applied Philosophy pp. 383 - 396
Main Authors Christiano, Thomas, Bajaj, Sameer
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 02.11.2016
Subjects
cognitive diversity
cognitive shortcuts
deliberative democracy
Democracy
experts
group polarization
inequality
marginalization
pluralism
public deliberation
rational ignorance
reasonableness
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Summary:The theory of deliberative democracy is a field of democratic theory that studies the contribution of public discussion, argumentation, and reasoning to the normative justification of democratic decision‐making. In this essay, we first explore two competing visions of the moral ideal of deliberative democracy: the rational consensus conception and the wide conception. This establishes a normative framework for analyzing several important applied issues that arise in thinking about deliberative democracy in the real world: the role of cognitive diversity in deliberative decision‐making, the problem of rational ignorance, inequality in public deliberation, and the problem of group polarization.
ISBN:9781118869130
1118869133
DOI:10.1002/9781118869109.ch27