Deliberation, social choice and absolutist democracy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Series: | Routledge innovations in political theory ;
22. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview of the chapters
- A comparison of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy
- Introduction
- Discourse and democracy
- Social choice theory
- Criticisms of deliberative democracy
- Criticisms of social choice theory
- Conclusion
- Circumventing Arrow's theorem
- Introduction
- What hope for democracy?
- Can deliberative democracy and social choice theory be made compatible?
- Abandoning democratic purity
- Limiting participation
- Conclusion
- An empirical test of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy
- Introduction
- A broad description of the institution
- Case studies : administration and governance of the west, and the location of the capital
- Conclusion
- Hobbesian sovereignty
- Introduction
- Hobbesian sovereignty
- Hobbes's intentions
- Success?
- Conclusion : Hobbesian absolutism revisited
- Democracy versus constitutionalism
- Introduction
- The fear of the majority
- Free speech
- Back to constitutions
- The British Constitution
- Conclusion : limits on parliamentary supremacy.