Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Systems Approach to Deliberative Democracy
The systems approach also helps deliberative theorists address some concerns, I think, well-placed concerns. It seems like on some of the early versions of deliberative democracy, quite heavy burden was placed on democratic citizens to be doing a lot of talking and thinking as individuals. That is part of the motivation for the systems view to sort of focus on broader social institutional questions.
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