Towards a deliberative and associational democracy / [electronic resource]
Elstub, Stephen,author.
Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discussions in democracy and has attracted vast attention. The reader will gain a significant insight to the key debates on justification and institutionalisation occurring with one of the most vital contemporary theories within democratic theory.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Cultivating autonomy: the normative core of democracy -- Deliberative democracy and autonomous decision-making -- Institutionalising deliberative democracy through secondary associations -- A dualist model of deliberative and associational democracy -- Democratising secondary associations -- Avoiding the mischief of factionalism.
Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discussions in democracy and has attracted vast attention. The reader will gain a significant insight to the key debates on justification and institutionalisation occurring with one of the most vital contemporary theories within democratic theory.
Democracy.
Representative government and representation.
Consensus (Social sciences)