Dilemmas in Deliberative Democratic Theory

Abstract

Deliberative democracy has become one of the most intellectually productive currents in democratic thought. This panel brings together papers that explore a number of conceptual dilemmas in deliberative democratic theory, along with its relation to other democratic theories. They ask whether deliberative democracy is a liberal democratic theory, and what is its relationship to popular sovereignty and illiberal democracy? Is deliberative democracy the route to meeting the All Affected Interests Principle? What is the role of heuristics in deliberative decision-making and can evaluation of deliberation be evidence-based? Taking on these questions, the papers identify lacunae in deliberative theory as well as pathways to a deeper understanding of the role of deliberation in democracy.

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Is Evidence-Based Evaluation of Deliberative Mini-Publics Methods Possible?: An Impossibility Result and its Silver Lining	View Paper Details
Affectedness-Proportional Multi-Criteria Participatory Decision-Making	View Paper Details
Popular Sovereignty And/or/in Deliberative Constitutionalism	View Paper Details
Varieties of "Illiberal” Conception of Deliberative Democracy	View Paper Details
Fast Track or Wrong Track: The Role of Heuristics in Deliberative Systems	View Paper Details