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A response to Roberto Gargarella’s review of Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury, by Albert W. Dzur.
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“Philosophers have been in revolt against—or have been revolted by—democracy since the trial and death of Socrates,” writes Waldron, “and in thirty years of teaching political philosophy in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, I have never seen much evidence that they have gotten over this” (Waldron 2011a, 1043). On the neglect of institutions, see Waldron (2011b).
James Fishkin has successfully trademarked his deliberative poll process, as has Ned Crosby for his citizens’ juries. America Speaks, a non-profit organization aiming to create sophisticated multi-purpose town hall meetings through small group deliberations and electronic keypad polling, has charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for events.
The repellent nature of criminal justice institutions examined in the book is further explored in Dzur (2014).
For more on the innovative democratic work of reformers such as Abramson and Gray, see my Trench Democracy series in the Boston Review: http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/dzur-trench-democracy-1.
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Dzur, A.W. The Priority of Participation: A Friendly Response to Professor Gargarella. Criminal Law, Philosophy 10, 473–477 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-014-9326-1
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