Reflective Democracy

By: Robert E. Goodin

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Paperback | 17 February 2005

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Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone''s votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to ''track the truth'', where purely factual issues are all that is at stake. Political disputes invariably mix facts with values, however, and then it is essential to listen to what people are saying rather than merely note how they are voting. The great challenge is how to implement that deliberative ideal among millions of people at once. In this strikingly original book, Goodin offers a solution: ''democratic deliberation within''. Building on models of ordinary conversational dynamics, he suggests that people simply imagine themselves in the position of various other people they have heard or read about and ask, ''What would they say about this proposal?'' Informing the democratic imaginary then becomes the key to making deliberations more reflective - more empathetic, more considered, more expansive across time and distance.Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in applied political theory. The series contains works of outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject matter.

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