Drusen volume as determined by spectral domain-OCT correlates with AREDS-determined drusen area and AREDS grade in nonexudative AMD. The correlation is not perfect, however, because drusen area and volume average 40% and 82% of the variation, respectively. Drusen volume can provide additional information in grading the severity of eyes with dry AMD.

As with many novel ideas in philosophy, accounts of deliberative democracy have so proliferated that many wonder whether there is anything to the idea. But deliberative democracy has become more than just another popular label that philosophers attach to different ideas (although this happens). Discussion also has gone beyond the point where what unites philosophers who affirm the idea is more than just their rejection of some entrenched view. At this stage there are several fairly well-defined areas of agreement (and disagreement) among the proponents of deliberative democracy. The aim of this essay is to discuss these, and to discuss the more distinctive arguments offered in support of a deliberative democracy. This is not a comprehensive review of the literature nor even a critical review of the contents of the volumes under discussion. Rather, my purpose will be achieved if I can clarify some of the main ideas and arguments that distinguish deliberative democracy from other conceptions. The essay focuses on prominent themes discussed in two recent anthologies with the same title: Deliberative Democraq ed. James Bohman andWilliam Rehg (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 19971, referred to here as 'DDi'; and DefibemtiveDemocmq ed. Jon Elster (Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press, 19981, referred to here as 'DDz'. Also discussed are themes developed in Juergen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996); Deliberative Democracy," DDi, pp. 145-72 at p. 152. 89. See Habermas's criticism of Rawls in "Reconciliation Through the Public Use of Reason," Journal ofPhilosophy92 (March 1995): 128, where Habermas says Rawlsian citizens, because their deliberations are to be guided by the principles of justice, "cannot reignite the radical democratic embers of the original position in the civic life of their society," Rawls replies to this criticism in "Reply to Habermas," JournalofPhilosophyga (March 1995) 153-60, and Political Liberalism (1996 paperback ed), pp. 399-409. go. Ibid., p. 131.

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