Deliberative Democracy & Beyond Liberals, Critics, Contestations
Liberals, Critics, Contestations
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In this ground-breaking study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. As one of those responsible for this turn, John Dryzek now takes issue with the direction it has taken. Discussing the models of democracy advocated by both friends and critics of the deliberative approach, Dryzek shows that democracy should be critical of established power, transitional in extending beyond national boundaries, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon and opportunities for democratization.
Introduction: The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory
Liberal Democracy and the Critical Alternative
Minimal Democracy? The Social Choice Critique
Difference Democracy: The Consciousness-Raising Group Against the Gentlemen's Club
Insurgent Democracy: Civil Society and State
Transnational Democracy: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Model
Green Democracy
Discursive Democracy in a Reflexive Modernity
John S. Dryzek , Professor in the Social and Political Theory Program in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
`The most remarkable and subtle part of Dryzek's argument is his attempt to contruct green theory of democratic communication, which takes account of agency and communication in the non-human natural world ... The argument is a bit like crossing a ravine on a bridge of eggshells, and is conducted with considerable intellectual excitement ... Dryzek's discussion is throughout careful, rigorous, detailed, and in dealing with views from which he distinguishes his own position, scrupulously sympathetic.'
Rodney Barker, Democratizaton, Vol.8, 2001 |d 15/08/2001