Deliberative democracy
Subtitle: essays on reason and politics
By: edited by James Bohman and William Rehg.
Contributors: Bohman, James.; Rehg, William.
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Democracy; Representative government and representation
Description: The anthology opens with four key essays - by Jon Elster, Jurgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, and John Rawls - that helped establish the current inquiry into deliberative models of democracy. The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. All the contributions address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.

Although the authors approach the topic of deliberation from different perspectives, they all aim to provide a theoretical basis for a more robust democratic practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.