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Democracy and disagreement

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Harvard University Press, 1996 - Political Science - 422 pages

The din and deadlock of public life in America--where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals made and unmade--reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their representatives increasingly take extreme and intransigent positions. A better kind of public discussion is needed, and Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson provide an eloquent argument for "deliberative democracy" today. They develop a principled framework for opponents to come together on moral and political issues.

Gutmann and Thompson show how a deliberative democracy can address some of our most difficult controversies--from abortion and affirmative action to health care and welfare--and can allow diverse groups separated by class, race, religion, and gender to reason together. Their work goes beyond that of most political theorists and social scientists by exploring both the principles for reasonable argument and their application to actual cases. Not only do the authors suggest how deliberative democracy can work, they also show why improving our collective capacity for moral argument is better than referring all disagreements to procedural politics or judicial institutions. Democracy and Disagreement presents a compelling approach to how we might resolve some of our most trying moral disagreements and live with those that will inevitably persist, on terms that all of us can respect.

  

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User Review  - Sergei Moska - Goodreads

Rightly considered to be a critical text in the (sub)field of deliberative democracy. The argument is interesting and wide in scope. There are three very small issues that I have with the book. The ... Read full review

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Contents

The Persistence of Moral Disagreement
11
The Sense of Reciprocity
52
The Value of Publicity
95
The Scope of Accountability
128
The Promise of Utilitarianism
165
The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy
199
The Latitude of Liberty
230
The Obligations of Welfare
273
The Ambiguity of Fair Opportunity
307
Conclusion
346
Notes
363
Index
411
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Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement
Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement. (Reading notes; uses mostly their terms). Ch. 1:. Deliberation - requires generality, though ...
home.uchicago.edu/ ~ahkissel/ gutmann.html

Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided ...
Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided in Politics, and What Should Be Done about It.
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JSTOR: Democracy and Disagreement.
In Democracy and Disagreement, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson take as their point of departure the inescapability of moral conflict--stemming from value ...
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washingtonpost.com: I Hear America Talking
Only Democracy and Disagreement, by two well-known philosophers, ... Democracy and Disagreement, by Gutmann and Thompson, has no such easy answers. ...
www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-srv/ style/ longterm/ books/ reviews/ ihearamericatalking.htm

In Search of Common Ground - New York Times
By manipulating these easily manipulated abstractions, they are able to argue throughout ''Democracy and Disagreement'' that ''deliberative democracy'' ...
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THE DEBATING SOCIETY
Like many works in the rapidly growing field of deliberative democracy, Democracy and Disagreement is for the most part an exercise in moral reasoning. ...
www.peterberkowitz.com/ debatingsociety.html

Amy Gutmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Democracy and Disagreement (1996) calls for more reasoned argument in ... Democracy and Disagreement has been both praised as an effective remedy for ...
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PES Yearbook: 1998: Matthew Pamental, What is it Like to be a ...
One way to interpret Democracy and Disagreement is to see it as supplying a theory of ... For this, I will need to turn to Democracy and Disagreement. ...
www.ed.uiuc.edu/ eps/ PES-Yearbook/ 1998/ pamental.html

Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK EDTH Educational Theory 0013 ...
For example, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993); and Gutmann and Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement . 9. ...
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Contemporary Political Theory - Why Deliberative Democracy?
In this follow-up to their highly influential Democracy and Disagreement, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson present a slightly less detailed and more focused ...
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About the author (1996)

Amy Gutmann is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

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