The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy

The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 9781351983433
ISBN-13 : 1351983431
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Book Synopsis The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy by : Didier Caluwaerts

Download or read book The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy written by Didier Caluwaerts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For deliberative democrats, the strength of any democracy is public deliberation, the frequent and reasoned discussion between citizens on political issues. Despite all the theoretical claims made about deliberative systems, the question remains how to empirically assess both the legitimacy and function of deliberative systems in the real world and how individual sites of deliberation interact within the larger political system. In other words, what is the legitimacy of each individual component and under which conditions can these components improve the legitimacy of the wider system? These are the central research questions for this book looking particularly through the prism of the citizen-led mini-public G1000 in Belgium, which grew out of a feeling of deep democratic crisis. Offering empirically measurable translations of philosophical concepts, the book enhances our understanding of how political systems function, and of the viability of a deliberative democracy at a larger scale. Finally, it provokes fundamental normative questions on how we want to shape our society, especially divided ones. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of deliberative democracy, and to those interested in democratic theory and more broadly political science, communication, sociology, and philosophy.


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