Norms, motives and radical democracy: Habermas and the problem of motivation

Journal of Political Philosophy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-472

  Munro, Daniel ^a  

^a Expert Panel on Biodiversity Science   (Canada)

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EID: 36148938410     PISSN: 09638016     EISSN: 14679760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2007.00286.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. I am indebted to Joshua Cohen, Mary Dietz, David Estlund, Loren King, Thomas McCarthy, Sarah Song and two anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts of this article.
2. Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, trans. William Rehg (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), pp. 7, 445-6.
3. Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff, "Introduction," in Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), p. xii; Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 52.
4. Jürgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), p. 66.
5. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, p. 109.
6. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, p. 299.
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8. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, pp. 113-14.
9. Joseph Heath, Communicative Action and Rational Choice (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001), p. 26.
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11. Joshua Cohen Taking people as they are? Philosophy & Public Affairs, 30 (2002 363 86.
12. Seyla Benhabib, Critique, Norm and Utopia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
13. Habermas, "Reconciliation through the public use of reason," pp. 69-70.
14. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, p. 66.
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17. Archon Fung Recipes for public spheres: eight institutional design choices and their consequences Journal of Political Philosophy, 11 (2003 338 67.
18. Cohen and Fung, "Radical democracy," p. 30. The term "minipublics" is taken from Fung ("Recipes for public spheres," p. 339) who attributes the term, in turn, to Robert Dahl. See also Fung, Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006); and Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, eds, Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (London: Verso Press, 2003).
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20. The four design features considered here draw from Fung and Wright, eds, Deepening Democracy; Fung, "Recipes for public spheres"; and Daniel Munro "Rethinking empowered deliberative democracy" (unpublished paper).
21. Jon Elster, "Introduction," Deliberative Democracy, ed. Elster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1-18 at p. 12.
22. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, p. 67.
23. John Parkinson, Deliberating in the Real World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 64.
24. Ibid., pp. 65-6.
25. Cohen, "Procedure and substance in deliberative democracy," p. 113.