Filozofija i drustvo 2012 Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages: 187-202
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1202187J
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Deliberative democracy and the problem of it’s practical implementation
Janković Ivana (Filozofski fakultet, Odeljenje za filozofiju, Beograd)
Deliberative democracy holds that, for a democratic decision to be
legitimate, it must be preceded by deliberation among decision-makers. This
means that democratic decision cannot be merely the aggregation of
preferences that occurs in voting. Thus, citizens may change their initial
opinions and preferences as a result of the reflection induced by
deliberative communication and by taking into account other people’s
opinions. The aim of this paper is to outline the view of deliberative
democracy developed by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson as well as to
address some of the concerns raised by the critics regarding its practical
implementation.
Keywords: deliberative democracy, preferences transformation, deliberation, agregation, reflection, justification