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Reflective Democracy - Couverture rigide

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Goodin, Robert E.

 
9780199256174: Reflective Democracy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199256179 ISBN 13 : 9780199256174
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free
and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to 'track the
truth', where purely factual issues are all that is at stake. Political disputes invariably mix facts with
values, however, and then it is essential to listen to what people are saying rather than merely note how
they are voting. The great challenge is how to implement that deliberative ideal among millions of people at once. In this strikingly original book, Goodin offers a solution: 'democratic deliberation within'. Building on models of ordinary conversational dynamics, he suggests that people simply imagine themselves in the position of various
other people they have heard or read about and ask, 'What would they say about this proposal?' Informing
the democratic imaginary then becomes the key to making deliberations more reflective - more empathetic, more considered, more expansive across time and distance.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to 'track the truth', where purely factual issues are all that is at stake. Political disputes invariably mix facts with values, however, and then it is essential to listen to what people are saying rather than merely note how they are voting. The great challenge is how to implement that deliberative ideal among millions of people at once. In this strikingly original book, Goodin offers a solution: 'democratic deliberation within'. Building on models of ordinary conversational dynamics, he suggests that people simply imagine themselves in the position of various other people they have heard or read about and ask, 'What would they say about this proposal?' Informing the democratic imaginary then becomes the key to making deliberations more reflective - more empathetic, more considered, more expansive across time and distance.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert E. Goodin is at Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy at the Research School of Social Scienes, Australian National University.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199256179
ISBN 13 
9780199256174
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
292
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