The deliberative constitutionalism debate and a republican way forward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23160639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Bello Hutt (0000-0003-2979-6631, Research Foundation - Flanders, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-88 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jurisprudence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2040-3313 • E-ISSN: 2040-3321 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/20403313.2020.1785259 |
| OpenAlex | W3039573575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Constitutionalists and deliberative democrats show increasing interest in deliberative constitutionalism. They seek to reconcile two prima facie conflicting camps in legal and political philosophy: constitutionalism and democracy. These concepts’ internal tensions, have led deliberativists to theorise on constitutional matters unsystematically, and constitutionalists to largely ignore the influential deliberative turn in political philosophy of the past four decades. Scholars want to put this in the past. Nowadays, deliberative constitutionalism is explicitly presented as a clear and distinct idea that keeps those tensions at bay. With this in the background, this article does three things: It first describes the state-of-the art in deliberative constitutionalism. Second, it shows the limitations of the current literature. Finally, it proposes an alternative conception of deliberative constitutionalism as a suggestion that may cope with those limitations based on a republican understanding of representative deliberative democracy.
Constitutionalism · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Law and economics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Prima facie · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |