Deliberative Politics

Essays on Democracy and Disagreement

Bibliographic Data

ID23168688
EditorsStephen Macedo (0000-0003-3083-2636)
Year1999
Pages289
Publication date1999-08-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDeliberative politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195131918.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388344197
Open LibraryOL387212M
ISBN9780195131918
LanguageEN
Citations received98

This volume is a collection of essays by notable political philosophers and legal scholars on the concept of "deliberative democracy". With this theory, moral issues like abortion or affirmative action can be discussed using an enriched process of deliberation that forces citizens to take into account the moral claims of others. In large part these essays form a response to and criticism of the highly influential book Democracy and Disagreement by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, published in 1996 by Harvard, which propelled this theory into the scholarly limelight and which has been the single most important locus of this recent discussion. The contributors are all well-known, including Daniel Bell, Russell Hardin, Cass Sunstein, Stanley Fish, and Normal Daniels. Gutmann and Thompson contribute a response to critics.

Affirmative action · Criticism · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Democratic Theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Limelight · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Compromise (Ethics) · Forums (discussion and debate) · Political ethics · Representative government and representation

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