▪ Abstract Deliberative democratic theory has moved beyond the “theoretical statement”
stage and into the “working theory” stage. Although this essay revisits some of the main …

As with many novel ideas in philosophy, accounts of deliberative democracy have so
proliferated that many wonder whether there is anything to the idea. But deliberative …

Most jurists and scholars today take for granted that the US Constitution imposes unwritten
but judicially enforceable limits on how Congress and the President may construct their …

Proportionality, accepted as a general principle of constitutional law by many countries,
requires that government intrusions on freedoms be justified, that greater intrusions have …

Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study of democracy. Working
at its cutting edges, Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance reaches from …

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 …

When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political
decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy …

The din and deadlock of public life in America—where insults are traded, slogans
proclaimed, and self-serving deals made and unmade—reveal the deep disagreement that …

Feminist thought, moreover, has typically represented men's sexual objectification of women
as not a trivial but a central problem in women's lives, and the opposition to it as at the very …

It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making.
The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by …