Libro Deliberative Democracy and Divided Societies De Ian O'flynn

portada Deliberative Democracy and Divided Societies

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Edinburgh University Press

Autor

Ian O'flynn

Categoría

Política y Ciencias Sociales

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

181

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780748621446

Deliberative Democracy and Divided Societies

Ian O'flynn (Autor) · Edinburgh University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Deliberative Democracy and Divided Societies"

In a world where the impact of internal conflicts is spreading ever wider, there is a real need to rethink how democratic ideals and institutions can best be implemented. This book responds to this challenge by showing that deliberative democracy has crucial, but largely untapped, normative implications for societies deeply divided along ethnic lines. Its central claim is that deliberative norms and procedures can enable the citizens of such societies to build and sustain a stronger sense of common national identity. More specifically, it argues that the deliberative requirements of reciprocity and publicity can enable citizens and representatives to strike an appropriate balance between the need to recognise competing ethnic identities and the need to develop a common civic identity centred on the institutions of the state. Although the book is primarily normative, it supports its claims with a broad range of empirical examples, drawn from cases such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Macedonia, Northern Ireland and South Africa. It also considers the normative implications of deliberative democracy for questions of institutional design. It argues that power-sharing institutions should be conceived in a way that allows citizens as much freedom as possible to shape their own relation to the polity. Crucially, this freedom can enable them to reconstruct their relationship to each other and to the state in ways that ultimately strengthen and sustain the transition from ethnic conflict to democracy.