Virtual issues
Virutal Issue on Deliberative Democracy
Edited by Matthew Festenstein
The deliberative account of democracy has become a powerful and far-reaching, if contested, paradigm in political theory. Political philosophers have investigated the conceptual contours and normative desirability of deliberation, discussion and public rationality in democratic theory. Empirical political scientists have explored the forms and availability of deliberation in relation to such phenomena as international negotiations, regional and national legislative processes, and in various experimental settings. Among practitioners, the idea of deliberative democracy have inspired a surge of experimentation with techniques of public participation in policy making, including citizens' juries, participatory budgeting, electronic town halls, and many other models in environmental, development, health, and planning decisions around the world. This Virtual Issue of Political Studies brings together this journal's principal contributions to the debates which have shaped this tradition of research. Starting with David Miller's seminal article on deliberative democracy and social choice, these include explorations of theoretical, empirical and practical issues, representing a variety of perspectives on deliberative democracy, including some sharply sceptical voices. Taken as a collection, these articles not only make available important research from leading contributors to these debates, providing an introduction to the developing state of the art. They also display the benefits of bringing together philosophical, empirical and practical dimensions of inquiry in understanding the politics of deliberative democracy.
List of articles
Michael Saward
Enacting Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 161-179, Mar 2003, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00418
John Parkinson
Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 180-196, Mar 2003, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00419
Robert E. Goodin, Simon J. Niemeyer
When Does Deliberation Begin? Internal Reflection versus Public Discussion in Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 627-649, Dec 2003, doi: 10.1111/j.0032-3217.2003.00450.x
Cillian McBride
Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Recognition
Political Studies, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 497-515, Sep 2005, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00541.x
Carolyn M. Hendriks
Integrated Deliberation: Reconciling Civil Society's Dual Role in Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 486-508, Sep 2006, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00612.x
Carolyn Hendriks, John Dryzek, Christian Hunold
Turning Up The Heat: Partisanship In Deliberative Innovation
Political Studies, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 362-383, May 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00667.x
Mark Pennington
Hayekian Political Economy and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 722-739, Dec 2003, doi: 10.1111/j.0032-3217.2003.00455.x
Ulku Doğanay
Rethinking Democratic Procedures: Democracy and Deliberative Experiences in Turkey's LA21 Process
Political Studies, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 728-744, Dec 2004, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00505.x
Aviezer Tucker
Pre-Emptive Democracy: Oligarchic Tendencies in Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 127-147, Aug 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00676.x
Owen O'Donnell, Platon Tinios, Hugh Ward
Open Citizens' Juries and the Politics of Sustainability
Political Studies, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 282-299, Jun 2003, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00424
Maeve Cooke
Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 43-64, Jan 2006, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00424
Graham Smith, Corinne Wales, Graham Smith
Citizens' Juries and Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 947-969, Feb 2002, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00289
Shane O'Neill
The Politics of Inclusive Agreements: towards a Critical Discourse Theory of Democracy
Political Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 503-521, Feb 2002, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00272