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Comment: Deliberative democracy.

  • UPSC 2019
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  • Democracy

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Joseph M. Bessette coined the term deliberative democracy in 1980 to describe how the American Congress reasons about policy. Since then it has come to mean something broader: democratic authority rests on public reasoning among free and equal citizens, not on counting votes alone. It is the substantive answer to a democracy reduced to periodic…

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