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Review Article: Deliberative Democracy and Beyond.
Review Article: Deliberative Democracy and Beyond.

Author(s): Camil Alexandru Pârvu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: deliberative democracy; rhetoric; agonism; political justification.

Summary/Abstract: This article surveys some of the main recent debates concerning deliberative democracy. It first sets out to discuss the main elements of a generic structure of deliberative democratic theories, and then lists and assesses some of the most promising critiques to the current versions of public deliberation. Alternative understandings of democratic politics, grounded on agonism or rhetorical persuasion, may provide a renewed perspective on the core political nature of contemporary democracy.

  • Issue Year: 9/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 291-305
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English