Reflective Democracy (Oxford Political Theory) - Brossura

Goodin, Robert E.

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ISBN 10: 0199279748 ISBN 13: 9780199279746

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2001

Riassunto

Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to 'track the truth', where purely factual issues are all that is at stake. Political disputes invariably mix facts with values, however, and then it is essential to listen to what people are saying rather than merely note how they are voting. The great challenge is how to implement that deliberative ideal among millions of people at once. In this strikingly original book, Goodin offers a solution: 'democratic deliberation within'. Building on models of ordinary conversational dynamics, he suggests that people simply imagine themselves in the position of various other people they have heard or read about and ask, 'What would they say about this proposal?' Informing the democratic imaginary then becomes the key to making deliberations more reflective - more empathetic, more considered, more expansive across time and distance.

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Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert E. Goodin is at Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy at the Research School of Social Scienes, Australian National University.

Contenuti:

• 1: Introduction
• Preference Democracy
• 2: The Autonomy of Preferences
• 3: The Authority of Preferences
• Belief Democracy
• 4: Negotiating Beliefs
• 5: Democracy as a Condorcet Truth-Tracker
• 6: Democracy as a Bayesian Persuader
• 7: Rationalizating Persisting Opposition
• Value Democracy
• 8: Input Democracy
• 9: Democratic Deliberation Within
• 10: Representing Excluded Interests
• 11: Representing Mute Interests
• 12: Conclusion

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0199279748
• ISBN 13: 9780199279746
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 294