'Deliberative democracy'is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments.
This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of
democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic
engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states,
and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the
world's leading deliberative theorists, Deliberative Systems explains the principles of this …

抄録< jats: title> Abstract</jats: title>< jats: p> What I will call “everyday talk” does not meet
all of the criteria implicit in the ordinary use of the word “deliberation.” It is not always self-
conscious, reflective, or considered. But everyday talk, if not always deliberative, is
nevertheless a crucial part of the full deliberative system that democracies need if citizens
are, in any sense, to rule themselves. Through talk among formal and informal
representatives in designated public forums, talk back and forth between constituents and …