A new special issue of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy has recently been published. An eminent line up of scholars inlcuding Jurgen Habermas, Jane Mansbridge, Robert Goodin and others, consider the arguments of Christina Lafont's new book Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy (2019) discussing topics such as minipublics, assemblies, blind deference, everyday publics and several others in the fields of public participation and deliberative democracy. Christina Lafont also responds. Contents follow.
CONTENTS
Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue
Nicole Curato, Julien Vrydagh, André Bächtiger, University of Canberra,Vrije Universiteit Brussels, University of Stuttgart
Commentary on, Cristina Lafont, Democracy Without Shortcuts
Jürgen Habermas, University of Frankfurt
A Citizen-Centered Theory
Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
Between Full Endorsement and Blind Deference
Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University
Towards a More Robust, but Limited and Contingent Defence of the Political Uses of Deliberative Minipublics
André Bächtiger, Saskia Goldberg University of Stuttgart
It’s Not Just the Taking Part that Counts: ‘Like Me’ Perceptions Connect the Wider Public to Minipublics
James Pow, Lisa van Dijk, Sofie Marien, Queens University Belfast, KU Leuven, KU Leuven
The Derailed Promise of a Participatory Minipublic: The Citizens’ Assembly Bill in Flanders
Ronald Van Crombrugge, KU Leuven
Citizens Without Robes: On the Deliberative Potential of Everyday Politics
Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine
Participatory Deliberative Democracy in Complex Mass Societies
Mark E. Warren, University of British Columbia
Another Way for Deepening Democracy Without Shortcuts
Tetsuki Tamura, Nagoya University
Against Anti-Democratic Shortcuts: A Few Replies to Critics
Cristina Lafont, Northwestern University
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