Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy

by James Bohman

Book Overview

Bohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural pluralism, social inequalities, social complexity, and community-wide biases and ideologies.

How can we create a vital and inclusive pluralistic democracy? Public Deliberation offers answers to this question by showing how democratic theory and democratic practice can be remade to face new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262522780
• ISBN13: 9780262522786
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher