Abstract
This essay focuses on recent proposals to confer decisional status upon deliberative mini-publics such as citizens’ juries, Deliberative Polls, and citizens’ assemblies. Against such proposals, I argue that inserting deliberative mini-publics into political decision-making processes would diminish the democratic legitimacy of the political system as a whole. This negative conclusion invites a question: which political uses of mini-publics would yield genuinely democratic improvements? Drawing from a participatory conception of deliberative democracy, I propose several uses of mini-publics that could enhance the democratic legitimacy of political decision-making in current societies.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 85-105 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Daedalus |
| Volume | 146 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2017 |
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- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Political Science and International Relations
- History and Philosophy of Science
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Can democracy be deliberative & participatory? The democratic case for political uses of mini-publics. / Lafont, Cristina.
In: Daedalus, Vol. 146, No. 3, 01.07.2017, p. 85-105.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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