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Participatory Democracy Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2012

Carole Pateman
Carole Pateman
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Over the past two decades we have heard an historically unprecedented volume of talk about and praise of democracy, and many governmental, non-governmental, and international organizations have been engaged in democracy promotion. Democracy is a subject that crosses the boundaries in political science, and within my own field of political theory there has been a major revival of democratic theory. In political theory, argument about “democracy” is usually now qualified by one of an array of adjectives, which include cosmopolitan, agonistic, republican, and monitory. But the new form that has been by far the most successful is deliberative democracy. By 2007 John Dryzek could write that “deliberative democracy now constitutes the most active area of political theory in its entirety (not just democratic theory).” Not only is there an extremely large and rapidly growing literature, both theoretical and empirical, on deliberative democracy, but its influence has spread far outside universities.

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APSA Presidential Address
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 7 - 19
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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