Democratic Deliberation
The Problem of Implementation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23248736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel A Bell (0000-0002-5521-3383, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 70-87 |
| Publication date | 1999-08-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Deliberative politics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195131918.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4388344222 |
| ISBN | 9780195131918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The most influential political philosophers today divide their work into two tasks. The first task is to present and rigorously defend morally desirable political principles, and the second is to think about how to implement them. Quite often, the first task proves to be overwhelming, and it is left to others to think about feasibility. The problem, of course, is that the political principles often prove to be useless or counterproductive in practice, which undermines the first task. One might have thought that the political principles themselves should be assessed partly by the extent to which they can be usefully implemented in practice, but philosophical purists seem to worry about the possible implication that there may not be one unique, universally applicable, and eternally valid set of political principles.
Deliberation · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Task (project management) · Work (physics) · Worry · Computer Science · Engineering · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |