Kommentar |
By making joint decisions, collectives commit to social rules and establish political orders. One way of reaching collective decisions that is of prime importance in advanced democracies is deliberation, i.e. deciding by weighing reasons.
The seminar discusses different ways of making collective decisions in terms of their efficiency and legitimacy. We will distinguish between aggregative and deliberative approaches to collective choice and juxtapose different decision procedures (majority voting, random selection, tacit consent etc.). We will deal with some of the most contested issues in deliberative democratic theory, such as, e.g., questions of scale and the place for self-interest in deliberative decision-making and we zoom in on different institutional settings, such as parliaments and minipublics. |
Literatur |
- Bächtiger, A. (2014) Debate and deliberation in legislatures, in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, edited by Martin, S./Saalfeld, T./Strøm, K. W. Oxford: Oxford University Press (online resource).
- Manin, B. (1987) On legitimacy and political deliberation. Political Theory 15(3), 338-368.
- Stone, P. (2009) The logic of random selection. Political Theory 37(3), 375-397.
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