Participatory Versus Radical Democracy in the 21st Century

Carole Pateman, Jacques Ranciere, and Sheldon Wolin

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6308926
AutoresJason Vick (University of California System, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas204-223
Data de publicação2015-06-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07393148.2015.1022960
OpenAlexW1975743956
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

What is the relationship between participatory and radical democracy and why are they relevant? This paper answers these questions by bringing into conversation the participatory theory of Pateman and the radical theories of Rancière and Wolin to see what they can learn from each other. I argue that participatory democracy demonstrates the value of attending to questions of institutional transformation, due to the ability of greater participation to both empower citizens and legitimize democratic authority structures. Radical democracy, on the other hand, calls attention to the ways in which the conditions of democratic possibility have changed in the past half century, thus making the dream of institutionalizing a participatory democracy much more difficult to realize. In doing so, I demonstrate that participatory and radical theories of democracy have much to offer to one another and to broader ongoing debates within democratic theory

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