Ebook: Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement

Cover page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Dedication; Introduction; Part I: Challenging The Value of Deliberative Democracy; 1: Talking as a Decision Procedure; 2: Enough of Deliberation: Politics Is about Interests and Power; 3: Diversity, Toleration, and Deliberative Democracy: Religious Minorities and Public Schooling; 4: Three Limitations of Deliberative Democracy: Identity Politics, Bad Faith, and Indeterminacy; 5: Deliberation, and What Else?; 6: Democratic Deliberation: The Problem of Implementation; 7: Mutual Respect as a Device of Exclusion.;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? What is the relationship between deliberative politics and liberal constitutional arrangements?