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Assess the deliberate theories of democracy.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Democracy

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Around 1990 democratic theory took what John S. Dryzek (Deliberative Democracy and Beyond, 2000) called a deliberative turn. Its theories hold a decision legitimate when it has been justified by reasons exchanged among free and equal citizens, not merely because votes were counted. They are powerful as a regulative ideal and incomplete as an account…

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