Deliberation Constrained: An Increasingly Segmented Europe

Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum have contributed with a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy

About the book

Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field, in philosophy, in various research programmes in the social sciences and law, and in political practice around the globe. It provides a concise history of deliberative ideals in political thought and discusses their philosophical origins.

The Handbook locates deliberation in political systems with different spaces, publics, and venues, including parliaments, courts, governance networks, protests, mini-publics, old and new media, and everyday talk. It engages with practical applications, mapping deliberation as a reform movement and as a device for conflict resolution, documenting the practice and study of deliberative democracy around the world and in global governance.

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Ch. 54 - Deliberation Constrained: An Increasingly Segmented Europe
Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum

In: The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy
AndrĂ© Bächtiger, John S. Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge and Mark E. Warren (eds)

Oxford University Press, 2018
ISBN: 9780198747369

Tags: Democracy
Published Jan. 8, 2019 10:39 AM - Last modified Jan. 28, 2022 9:00 PM