Deliberative Democracy

'''Deliberative Democracy '''

discussion        “[T]he theory and practice of a model of democracy that emphasizes the exchange of reasons in the making of democratic decisions” (Crocker 2008:309).

“The definitive idea for deliberative democracy is the idea of deliberation itself. When citizens deliberate, they exchange views and debate their supporting reasons concerning public political questions. They suppose that their political opinions are not simply a fixed outcome of their existing private or nonpolitical interests. It is at this point that public reason is crucial, for it characterizes such citizens’ reasoning concerning constitutional essentials and matters of basic justice” (John Rawls, quoted in Crocker 2008:309).