Deliberative Democracy and Beyond takes a critical tour through recent democratic theory, beginning with the deliberative turn that occurred around 1990. The essence of this turn is that democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberation among those affected by a collective decision. While the deliberative turn was initially a challenge to established institutions and models of democracy, it was soon assimilated by these same institutions and models. Drawing a distinction between liberal constitutionalism and discursive democracy, the author criticizes the former and advocates the latter. He argues that a defensible theory of democracy should be critical of established power, pluralistic, reflexive in questioning established traditions, transnational in its capacity to extend across state boundaries, ecological, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon, and opportunities for, democratization.
Author(s): John S. Dryzek
Series: Oxford Political Theory
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: vii;195
City: New York
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Preface
Introduction: The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory [1-7
1 Liberal Democracy and the Critical Alternative [8-30
Deliberative Democracy in Liberal Constitutionalism [9
1. Deliberative Principles Justify Liberal Rights
2. Liberal Constitutions Promote Deliberation
3. Constitution‐Making Is Itself a Deliberative Process
The Limits of Liberalism [17
Critical Theory [20
Retrieving the Critical Voice [27
2 Minimal Democracy? The Social Choice Critique [31-56
The Social Choice Critique of Democracy [33
Is Talk Cheap? [36
The Social Choice Critique of Voting in a Deliberative Context [38
Tractable Collective Choice via Domain Restriction [42
From Voting to Communication [47
From the State to the Public Sphere [50
Conclusion [55
Notes
3 Difference Democracy: The Consciousness‐Raising Group Against the Gentlemen's Club [57-80
Models of Di erence Democracy [58
Does Deliberation Repress Difference? [62
Deliberating Across Difference [67
Storytelling and Testimony
Greeting
Rhetoric
Argument
Difference as the Contest of Discourses [74
Notes
4 Insurgent Democracy: Civil Society and State [81-114
Democratization as Inclusion [85
Inclusive States [88
Inclusion in Historical Perspective [93
Emerging State Imperatives and the Prospects for Inclusion [96
To Civil Society [99
The Democratic Benefits of Exclusive States [103
Movement Strategy and State Response [107
Conclusion [113
Notes
5 Transnational Democracy: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Model [115-39
In Search of Transnational Democracy: Government or Governance? [117
The International System and Its Discourses [121
Some Discursive Contests [124
Democratic Theory and Transnational Practice [129
Institutionalization: The Role of Civil Society Networks in Promoting Deliberation [133
Inclusion, Exclusion, and Transnational Civil Society [135
Conclusion [138
6 Green Democracy [140-61
Green Structures, not Just Green Values [140
Biocentric and Anthropocentric Models, and Their Inadequacies [145
The Communicative Rationality of Ecological Democracy [147
Democracy Across the Boundary With Nature [152
Co‐Ordination through Spontaneous Order [157
Conclusion [160
Notes
7 Discursive Democracy in a Re exive Modernity [162-75
Democracy in Reflexive Modernity [163
The Shape of Deliberative Democracy [166
Conclusion [175
Bibliography [176-90
Index [191-5
