Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement

by Stephen Macedo

Book Overview

The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reaction to the dominance of liberal constitutionalism. But many questions surround this new project. What does deliberative democracy stand for? What difference would deliberative practices make in the real world of political conflict and public policy design?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195131916
• ISBN13: 9780195131918
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Essential for deliberative studies

The book organized by Macedo discusses a classical in deliberative studies: Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson's Democracy and Disagreement (1996 is the key year in this area, the same year when Public Delibration, by James Bohman, was published). What I most like in this book is how different authors examine Gutmann and Thompson's ideas regarding the promises, advances and failures in deliberative theory. You will find authors who agree and disagree with Gutmann and Thompson, and in the end a response by Gutmann and Thompson, considering each of the critiques in a heuristic process. In a word, essential.