A New Approach to Democracy: Deliberative Democracy

Abstract

participation and deliberation by shaping around more inclusive practices over the need to meet citizens' desire to be more active in decision-making processes. The deliberative democracy also draws attention because it is an approach shaped through the modern era of democracy, as an alternative to the issues in which classical democracy models are criticized. For this purpose, the main assumptions of deliberative democracy will be explained by evaluating the criticized issues of classical democracy understanding. Also, the development of democracy as a historical and theoretical origin, the characteristics and criticism of liberal representative democracy will also be discussed.