Abstract

BOHMAN, James. The Coming of Age of Deliberative Democracy . Co-herencia [online]. 2016, vol.13, n.24, pp.105-143. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.13.24.5.

I will be reviewing three different ways in which the making the problem of how this ideal would be approximated increasingly central in societies characterized by deep disagreements, social problems of enormous complexity and also consider the blunt instruments of available institutions. First, theories of deliberative democracy have come to emphasize the process of deliberation itself, rather than its ideal and counterfactual conditions and procedures. Second, deliberative democrats have become increasingly interested in the problems of institutionalization, of making institutions such as voting and majority rule, representation, courts and constitutional law more deliberative rather than rejecting them for more direct democracy. Third, these aforementioned democrats are concerned with examining and comparing different settings and procedures of deliberation, pointing out empirical problems and obstacles that cannot always be anticipated by conceptual argument alone.

Keywords : Deliberative democracy; epistemic justification; deliberative institutions; empirical problems.

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