Democracy as Public Deliberation

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
The contributors
1 Introduction: democracy as public deliberation
Normative perspectives
Institutional perspectives
Part I: Normative perspectives
2 Political legitimacy and democratic deliberation
Justice in multicultural societies
Neutrality
Perfectionism
Deliberation
3 Five arguments for deliberative democracy
The process of public deliberation has an educative power
The process of public deliberation has a community-generating power
The procedure of public deliberation improves the fairness of democratic outcomes
Public deliberation contributes constructively to the practical rationality of democratic outcomes
Deliberative democracy elucidates an ideal of democracy that is most congruent with 'who we are'
Conclusion
4 Deliberation, citizenship and identity
Deliberative obligations
Arguments for deliberation
Citizenship and identity
Conclusion
5 Rawls and deliberative democracy
Layered ambiguities: Rawls on public reason
The Rawlsian mirror
The more things change ...
Forward to the origins?
Part II: Institutional perspectives
6 Deliberation and decision making: discontinuity in the two-track model
Deliberative democracy: the basic model
Deliberation and decision making: a two-track model?
Bridging the apparent discontinuity
Augmenting motivational concerns with institutional ones
Conclusion
7 Citizens' juries and deliberative democracy
Towards deliberative institutions
Citizens' juries: innovative deliberative institution?
Inclusivity
Deliberation
Citizenship
Lessons from citizens' juries?
8 Democratic deliberation and cultural rights: the Orange Order march at Drumcree
Deliberative democracy and deep conflict
The threat to political accommodation
Rights as a condition of equal citizenship
A virtual dialogue
Assessing the competing claims
Political legitimacy and cultural expression
9 Is deliberative democracy unfair to disadvantaged groups?
Critiques of deliberative democracy
Inequality in deliberative institutions
Is deliberation biased against disadvantaged groups?
Alternatives to deliberation
Index