摘要: Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration these ideals, the concept deliberative democracy is based on principle that legitimate issues from public deliberation citizens. This remarkably fruitful has spawned investigations along number lines. Areas inquiry include nature value deliberation, feasibility desirability consensus contentious issues, implications institutional complexity cultural diversity for decision making, significance voting majority rule in arrangements.The anthology opens with four key essays--by Jon Elster, JA rgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, John Rawls--that helped establish current into models democracy. The nine essays follow represent latest efforts leading theorists to tackle various problems All contributions address tensions arise between reason politics inspired by ideal achieving reasoned agreement among free equal Although authors approach topic different perspectives, they all aim provide theoretical basis more robust practice.Contributors : James Bohman, Thomas Christiano, David Estlund, Gerald F. Gaus, Johnson, Jack Knight, Frank I. Michelman, Rawls, Henry S. Richardson, Iris Marion Young.