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Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy

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Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy

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In this essay I explore the ideal of a ‘deliberative democracy’.1 By a deliberative democracy I shall mean, roughly, an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members. I propose an account of the value of such an association that treats democracy itself as a fundamental political ideal and not simply as a derivative ideal that can be explained in terms of the values of fairness or equality of respect.

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Routledge

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Print

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Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

No

Peer reviewed

No

ISBN

978-0-203-98682-0

Citation

Cohen, J. (2002). Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy. In Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy. Routledge.

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Published Text

Scholarship genre

Theoretical

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