Instituting Deliberative Democracy
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I take it for granted that we live in an imperfectly deliberative democracy. We recognize, in many of our public decision-making practices, the norm that statutes and administrative actions ought to be the result of deliberative consideration of alternatives according to public values. We also believe that public decisions ought to be responsive in some way to the diverse views of the common good held by citizens. We also believe that everyone, directly or indirectly, is equally entitled to enter into the discussions that produce such decisions and to have has views respected and taken seriously into account in whatever public decision is reached. We lament that people don’t take much part in public life and don’t seem to feel obligated to do so. In this sense, there seems a widespread commitment to deliberative norms, even if there is less agreement as to what such norms require of us.
Source Publication
Designing Democratic Institutions
Source Editors/Authors
Ian Shapiro, Stephen Macedo
Publication Date
2000
Recommended Citation
Ferejohn, John A., "Instituting Deliberative Democracy" (2000). Faculty Chapters. 532.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/532
