What should we expect from more democracy : Radically democratic responses to politics

摘要: THEORIES OF RADICAL DEMOCRACY hold that if individuals were more broadly empowered, especially in the institutions most directly affect their everyday lives, experiences would have transformative effects. Individuals become public spirited, tolerant, knowledgeable, attentive to interests of others, and probing own interests. Transformations such as these improve workings higher-level representative institutions, well mitigate threats democracy is often held pose rights, pluralism, governability.1 And make collective decisions radically democratic ways will tend generate new forms solidarity, cooperation, civic attachment. One version radical has been gaining currencyincreasingly referred "deliberative democracy"-holds that, variety possible experiences, deliberation central generative effects.2 Unlike many theorists, proponents deliberative do not view formal procedures voting political rights definitive democracy. Rather, on view, we should regard rules mechanisms empower protect deliberations. Formal