Inclusion and dissent in deliberate democracy

dc.contributor.authorDrake, Anna Marieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-13T20:18:44Z
dc.date.available2024-08-13T20:18:44Z
dc.date.copyright2003en_US
dc.date.issued2003
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractNormative deliberative theories stress the importance of procedural justice, purport to include all people as equals, and aim to address the problem that marginalized groups pose for democracy. However, normative deliberative theories cannot guarantee that deliberative groups will recognize all normatively acceptable public reasons. When deliberative groups fail to recognize public reasons, they unjustly exclude groups. Members of the marginalized group that deliberants exclude may form protest groups. Because theories of deliberative democracy do not discuss political protest and because marginalized groups form protest groups, theories of deliberative democracy fail to deal adequately with marginalized groups. In order to resolve the tension between communicative democratic theory and political protest, I propose that communicative democrats adopt a dissent-asĀ­ difference approach. Dissent-as-difference theory treats legitimate political protest in the same way as communicative democratic theory treats difference and recognizes the democratic legitimacy of the type of marginalized groups that form protest groups.
dc.format.extent129 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/17648
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleInclusion and dissent in deliberate democracyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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