Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations
Author(s): John S. Dryzek (Author)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 18 April 2002
Language: English
Print length: 207 pages
ISBN-10: 019925043X
ISBN-13: 9780199250431
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. As one of those responsible for this turn, John Dryzek now takes issue with the direction it has taken. Discussing the models of democracy advocated by both friends and critics of the deliberative approach, Dryzek shows that democracy should be critical of established power, transitional in extending beyond national boundaries, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon and opportunities for democratization.
Editorial Reviews
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“This clear and imaginative presentation of recent attempts to make democracy more inclusive than traditional liberal models bounded by the institutions of the state is highly recommended.”–Choice
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The most remarkable and subtle part of Dryzek’s argument is his attempt to contruct green theory of democratic communication, which takes account of agency and communication in the non-human natural world … The argument is a bit like crossing a ravine on a bridge of eggshells, and is conducted with considerable intellectual excitement … Dryzek’s discussion is throughout careful, rigorous, detailed, and in dealing with views from which he distinguishes his own position, scrupulously sympathetic. ― Rodney Barker, Democratizaton, Vol.8, 2001Review from previous edition There is much to like and learn from this small but densely argued volume … All scholars interested in the relationship between democracy and voluntary organizations in civil society will find important food for thought…richly argued and thoughtful…even though this book will raise many questions and criticisms, these are themselves a reflection not of Dryzek’s failure as a political thinker, but of his strength as an interesting, provocative, and serious democratic theorist” ― AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
Dryzek has convincingly argued the case for a more critical, insurgent, pluralistic, reflexive, transnational, ecological and dynamic discursive democracy. More than this, he has carved out an adventurous, distinctive path through much familiar terrain. ―
POLITICAL QUARTERLY
About the Author
John S. Dryzek is Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne
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