MODELS OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: THE MAIN WAYS OF NORMATIVE JUSTIFICATION
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2024-4-1510
Abstract
Aim. To examine several original models of deliberative democracy proposed in foreign scientific literature and provide a critical analysis of the arguments given by the authors in support of their models.
Methodology. The methods of comparative, regulatory and critical analysis are used. First of all, the model proposed by A. Gutmann and D. Thompson is considered, then, the models presented by J. Habermas, C. Nino and R. Goodin.
Results. Consideration of all the models demonstrates that, firstly, different thinkers understand the goals and meaning of deliberation in different ways, seeing it as either epistemic or non-epistemic value, and secondly, deliberation itself can be understood in two ways, namely as a discussion and as an reflection (thoughtfulness), which allows to talk about the existence of actually two different theories of deliberative democracy: discursive and reflexive.
Research implications. The results obtained make it possible to better understand the phenomenon of deliberative democracy by offering two possible classifications of the deliberative models.
About the Author
Nikolai A. Shaveko
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Udmurt Branch
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Law), Senior Researcher
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