Ebook: Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations

Around 1990, democratic theory took a strong deliberative turn. In its wake, the essence of democracy is now widely understood to be the ability of all those affected by a collective decision to participate in deliberation about the decision. The deliberative turn began as a challenge to established institutions and models of democracy, but it has now been largely assimilated by these same institutions and models.