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11 Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy
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Published:August 1999
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The contemporary debate about deliberative democracy often has a rather utopian quality. Advocates of deliberation regularly take it as self-evident truth that deliberation is a superior form of democratic decision-making. Similarly, many maintain the view that the only things that prevent deliberation from producing a consensus on complex social questions are constraints on time, energy, and resources. In addition, a positive and reciprocal relationship between individual attitudes and collective deliberation is assumed: On the one hand, deliberation requires a certain open and generous stance of mutual respect on the part of the participants, while on the other hand, we are assured that participation in the deliberative process will develop such an individual perspective. And, perhaps most important, the primary focus of the debate remains on abstract conceptions of deliberation, without much attention to how deliberative democracy can actually be institutionalized and maintained. In Democracy and Disagreement, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson interject a significant dose of realism into the debate over the value of deliberation for democratic decision-making.1 They should be commended for advancing this debate on several fronts.
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