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Explicate the features of deliberative democracy.

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  • Democracy

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Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson (Why Deliberative Democracy?, 2004) define deliberative democracy as government in which free and equal citizens and their representatives justify decisions to one another. The reasons they give must be mutually acceptable and generally accessible, and the decisions bind for now but remain open to challenge. Legitimacy comes from reasoned justification,…

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