Deliberative democracy : issues and cases /

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Imprint:	Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations, tables
Language:	English
Subject:	Deliberative democracy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General. Deliberative democracy. Electronic books. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11225272

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Other authors / contributors:	Elstub, Stephen. Mclaverty, Peter.
ISBN:	9780748643509 0748643508 9780748643493 9780748686506 0748686509 9780748678068 0748678069 9780748643486 0748643494 9780748643493 0748643486 9780748643486
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Deliberative Democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. The problems faced by deliberative democracy are outlined in the context of the available empirical evidence, solutions are surveyed, and new and innovative ideas are proposed to resolve these issues. Each chapter takes a key issue as its focus: Conflict ́⁰Ø Inequality ́⁰Ø Expertise ́⁰Ø Interests ́⁰Ø Pluralism ́⁰Ø Citizens' Psychological Attributes ́⁰Ø Scale ́⁰Ø Public Openness ́⁰Ø The Public Sphere ́⁰Ø Minipublics Key Features. Makes a profound contribution to the development of deliberative democracy in theory and practice Weighs in on the ongoing, and increasingly urgent, debates about the meaning, desirability and practicality of deliberative democracy The contributors have all written widely about deliberative democracy
Other form:	Print version: Deliberative democracy 9780748643493

Table of Contents:

1. Conflict and deliberation / Georgina Blakeley
2. Inequality and deliberative democracy / Peter McLaverty
3. Expertise and deliberative democracy / Mark B. Brown
4. Interests, public policy and deliberation / Juraj Cintula
5. Pluralism and deliberative democracy / Ian O'Flynn
6. Citizen competence and the psychology of deliberation / Shawn W. Rosenberg
7. Sc̀aling up' deliberation / Alda Wegmann
8. Sequencing deliberative democracy to promote public openness / Jurg Steiner
9. The public sphere as a site of deliberation: an analysis of problems of inclusion / Maija Setala
10. Mini-publics: issues and cases / Stephen Elstub.

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