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Republicanism, Deliberative Democracy, and Equality of Access and Deliberation
Author(s) -
Bello Hutt Donald
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/theo.12138
Subject(s) - deliberation , deliberative democracy , democracy , underpinning , epistemology , politics , reading (process) , sociology , law and economics , political science , democratic theory , law , philosophy , civil engineering , engineering
The article elaborates an original intertwined reading of republican theory, deliberative democracy and political equality. It argues that republicans, deliberative democrats and egalitarian scholars have not paid sufficient attention to a number of features present in these bodies of scholarships that relate them in mutually beneficial ways. It shows that republicanism and deliberative democracy are related in mutually beneficial ways, it makes those relations explicit, and it deals with potential objections against them. Additionally, it elaborates an egalitarian principle underpinning the resulting model that I label Equality of Access and Deliberation. The upshot of these considerations is a novel and mutually reinforcing interrelated three‐tiered theoretical and institutional proposal.