Ian O'Flynn - Deliberative Democracy

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4 Copyright Page Copyright Page Copyright © Ian O’Flynn 2022 The right of Ian O’Flynn to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2022 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2345-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2346-7 (pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

5 Preface and Acknowledgements

6 Dedication

7 1 Deliberative Democracy Two basic criticisms Normative theory and empirical research Origins and revival What is deliberative democracy?

8 2 Deliberative Differences Freedom and equality Reason-giving Consensus The common good

9 3 Deliberative Mini-Publics Why mini-publics? Design issues Inclusion Participation Information Decision-making Agenda And what else?

10 4 Deliberative Systems Habermas’s two-track model Systemic rights and wrongs Warren’s problem-based approach

11 5 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy Pluralism s Public reason and its critics Democracy in divided societies

12 6 Global Deliberative Democracy? Political cosmopolitanism Rawls’s law of peoples Habermas’s postnational constellation Dryzek’s contest of discourses Some brief concluding thoughts

13 References

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15 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 3Table 3.1: Three types of mini-public

2 Chapter 6Table 6.1: Global deliberation or global deliberative democracy?

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Ian O’Flynn

polity

Copyright © Ian O’Flynn 2022

The right of Ian O’Flynn to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2022 by Polity Press

Polity Press

65 Bridge Street

Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK

Polity Press

101 Station Landing

Suite 300

Medford, MA 02155, USA

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2345-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2346-7 (pb)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL

The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.

Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.

For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

When Polity’s George Owers asked me to write this book, I was both pleased and excited. Having worked on deliberative democracy for more than twenty years, I saw it as an ideal opportunity to set down on paper some of the many things that I had learned. It was a chance both to organize my own thinking and, I hoped, to lend some renewed clarity to the field. On the other hand, the thought of evaluating a field as large, diverse and, in many important respects, contentious as deliberative democracy struck me as a daunting prospect. Important new articles seem to be published on an almost daily basis, while major books appear with frightening regularity. Of course, this is simply a reflection of the richness of the field – the vibrancy of the topic, its capacity to excite and, deep down, the sense that the world would be a much better place if only it were more like deliberative democracy. The problem that I faced, however, was what to include and what to set aside.