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- Title
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation.
- Authors
Scudder, Mary F
- Abstract
What is the relationship between deliberation and democracy? Despite the volumes dedicated to this question, recent admissions by prominent deliberative democrats—that we need not pursue a necessarily deliberative political system, but merely a democratic one—suggest that this remains an open question. Here, I defend the deliberative model's staying power against those who argue that it has been set normatively adrift. Addressing concerns of "concept-stretching," I show that the deliberative model provides much more than a defense of the practice of deliberation. Indeed, its key contribution is the answer it provides to the question of what democracy itself means in large pluralistic societies. Moreover, I show that by de-centering the practice of deliberation from deliberative theories of democracy, we can acknowledge the weakness of deliberation and the strengths of non-deliberative practices, while retaining the model's normative commitments.
- Subjects
DELIBERATION; DEMOCRACY; DELIBERATIVE democracy; POLITICAL systems; POWER (Social sciences); PLURALISM
- Publication
Political Studies, 2023, Vol 71, Issue 1, p238
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00323217211032624