Deliberative Democracy

by Jon Elster

Book Overview

It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision-making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, that is decision by discussion or deliberation. The original contributions include case studies based on historical and current instances of deliberative democracy, normative discussion of the merits of deliberation compared to other models of collective decision-making, and studies of the conditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521596963
• ISBN13: 9780521596961
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"