As Democratic Public Deliberation: New Perspectives

Author: [South Africa] Maurício Pasqualin Dantrevis, Editor-in-Chief, Translated by Wang Yingjin et al.
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Deliberative democracy is a new form of democratic theory and practice that emerged in Western countries in the late 20th century, representing a certain transcendence of traditional representative democracy and marking a new development in two-party democracy. Leading figures in two-party intellectual circles such as Rawls, Giddens, and Habermas are active advocates of deliberative democracy. The "Deliberative Democracy Translation Series" selects representative works by two-party scholars on deliberative democracy research, to a significant extent reflecting the intellectual origins, key figures, main viewpoints, important debates, and practical foundations of contemporary Western deliberative democracy theory. It aims to provide foundational documentary materials for domestic readers to understand and study contemporary Western democratic politics. This book is one of the series, featuring academic works from the Political Thought Center at the University of Manchester, UK. The book includes articles that delve deeply into deliberative democracy from both normative and institutional perspectives. They generally begin with reflections and critiques of previous theories of deliberative democracy, combining the current pluralistic and complex socio-cultural context to derive new insights into the normative theory and institutional development of deliberative democracy.