Deliberative Democracy

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Ian O'Flynn. Deliberative Democracy

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Series Title. Key Concepts in Political Theory series

Deliberative Democracy

Copyright Page

Preface and Acknowledgements

Dedication

1 Deliberative Democracy

Two basic criticisms

Normative theory and empirical research

Origins and revival

What is deliberative democracy?

2 Deliberative Differences

Freedom and equality

Reason-giving

Consensus

The common good

3 Deliberative Mini-Publics

Why mini-publics?

Design issues

Inclusion

Participation

Information

Decision-making

Agenda

And what else?

4 Deliberative Systems

Habermas’s two-track model

Systemic rights and wrongs

Warren’s problem-based approach

5 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy

Pluralisms

Public reason and its critics

Democracy in divided societies

6 Global Deliberative Democracy?

Political cosmopolitanism

Rawls’s law of peoples

Habermas’s postnational constellation

Dryzek’s contest of discourses

Some brief concluding thoughts

References

Index

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Ian O’Flynn

In the first instance, this book is about the concept of deliberative democracy and the many different ways in which the concept has been understood. It is, more specifically, about deliberative democracy as a normative project – a project concerned with evaluating existing democratic institutions and practices and proposals for their reform. It almost goes without saying that normative claims imply empirical questions, some of which are discussed in this book. However, the book is principally located in the broader field of political theory (or, if one prefers, political philosophy).

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In Chapter 2, we will look at these and other related issues in more detail. Before we do so, there are two further introductory tasks to be completed. First, in terms of setting the scene for the rest of the book, it is important to get some sense of the intellectual origins of the ‘deliberative revival’ that began in the 1980s. Second, in order to pave the way for a closer examination of how the concept of deliberative democracy has changed since that time, it is important to see how it was originally defined. To this end, we will turn in just a moment to the extended definition presented by Joshua Cohen in his seminal essay, ‘Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy’ (1989). But let us begin with origins and revival.

There are many reasons to trace the origins of contemporary ideas about deliberative democracy. Of those reasons, one of the more interesting is that it shows us how deliberation, political equality and accountability came to be so central to democratic theory.

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