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portada Democracy Without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy
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Physical Book
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Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780198848189
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Democracy Without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy

Cristina Lafont (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

Democracy Without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy - Cristina Lafont

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Synopsis "Democracy Without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy"

This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.

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Carolina OvaresThursday, June 09, 2022
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Lafont es una de las teóricas políticas más importantes sobre democracia en la actualidad. Y esta es su última obra donde analiza sus argumentos. Excelente libro.

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