Rational choice and democratic deliberation : a theory of discourse failure /
Pincione, Guido.
Tesón, Fernando R.,1950-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The allure of deliberation -- Rational choice and political discourse -- The epistemic argument for deliberation -- Political illiteracy : an illustration -- Discourse failure -- Patterns of political belief -- Discourse failure and cognitive psychology -- Persuasive definitions -- Discourse failure and desert -- The cost of dissent -- The rational choice framework -- Instrumental and epistemic rationality -- Rational choice and morality -- Why our argument is not ad hominem -- A note on empirical testing -- The resilience of discourse failure -- Reliable social science and opacity -- Deliberative institutions -- Good policies, bad reasons -- Shortcuts -- Deliberation, free speech, and truth -- Deliberation as a regulative ideal -- Deliberative democracy, Condorcet, and Bayes -- Symbolism in political argument -- Self-defeatingness as symbolism -- Symbolic behavior in politics -- Symbolic and causal utility: Nozick's challenge -- Symbolizing as the intended outcome -- Are self-defeating reformers rational? -- Why political deliberators appear to neglect consequences -- Discourse failure and political morality -- The moral turn -- Balancing, deontology, and the display test -- Direct involvement in evildoing -- Split responsibility -- Causal complexity in political argument -- Moral error -- Enforcement and causation -- A note on religious morality -- A note on the minimum wage and employment -- Types of discourse failure : a summary -- Non-epistemic defenses of deliberation -- Deliberation as the exercise of autonomy -- Sincerity in deliberation -- Deliberation and social conflict -- Deliberation and impartiality -- Deliberation, participation, and equality -- Is discourse failure always bad? -- Deliberation, consent, and majority rule -- Consent and reasonableness -- Deliberation, justice, and rights -- Deliberation and majority rule -- Vote indeterminacy -- The courtroom analogy -- Substantive principles and deliberative politics -- Overcoming discourse failure : voluntary communities -- A contractarian society -- Contracts and truth -- Contracts and compromise -- The paradox of contract -- Further objections and replies -- Discursive advantages of voluntary communities -- Loose ends.
Rational choice theory.
Democracy.