Deliberative Systems : Deliberative Democracy at the Large Scale.

Cover; DELIBERATIVE SYSTEMS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1: A systemic approach to deliberative democracy; What is a deliberative system?; Boundaries of the system; Functions of the deliberative system; Three systemic analyses; Experts; Pressure and protest; Political media; Defects in the deliberative system; Conclusion; 2: Rational deliberation among experts and citizens; The point of democratic deliberation; The division of labour; The Downsian critique; A more complex picture of the division of labour; Truth sensitivity; A normative account of the division of labour.

The principal-agent problemThe problem of truth sensitivity; Expertise; Mechanisms; Solidarity; Overlapping understanding; Competition; Sanctions; The connections between ordinary citizens and specialized deliberation: from experts to citizens; From citizens to expert knowledge; Concluding remarks; 3: Deliberation and mass democracy; Deliberative democracy, representative democracy, and mass democracy; Measuring mass deliberation; What counts as democratic deliberation?; Reason-giving; Binding decisions and democratic power; Impact through participation; Impact through votes.

Impact as responsivenessConclusion; 4: Representation in the deliberative system; Democracy and deliberative systems; From communicative freedom to communicative power; Citizenship as a multilevel status: perspectives or opinions?; From minipublics to minidemoi; Representing transnational demoi: citizen representation and the EU; Conclusion: democracy, representation, and non-domination; 5: Two trust-based uses of minipublics in democratic systems; Introduction; An economic problem: dividing labours between participation and trust; Trust in politics and government.

Two trouble spots for trust-based citizenshipMinipublics as objects of trust; Representativeness; Screens against conflicts of interest; Deliberativeness; Agreement on the issue; Minipublics as trusted information proxies; Minipublics as anticipatory publics; Conclusion; 6: On the embeddedness of deliberative systems: why elitist innovations matter more; Introduction; Weakly deliberative and weakly participatory: new public management and its derivatives; Deliberative -- but in reality elitist? Cooperative governance through policy networks.

Deliberative and elitist 1: agencification and the 'regulatory state'Deliberative and elitist 2: judicialization; Deliberative and elitist 3: cooperative, informal, and private governance at the transnational level; Conclusion; 7: Democratizing deliberative systems; Public reason and equal treatment; Responsiveness, determinacy, and communication; Summary: the criteria for a democratic deliberative system; Conclusion; References; Index.

A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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English.

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