Republicanism, Deliberative Democracy, and Equality of Access and Deliberation

Abstract

The article elaborates an original intertwined reading of republican theory, deliberative democracy and political equality. It argues that republicans, deliberative democrats and egalitarian scholars have not paid sufficient attention to a number of features present in these bodies of scholarships that relate them in mutually beneficial ways. It shows that republicanism and deliberative democracy are related in mutually beneficial ways, it makes those relations explicit, and it deals with potential objections against them. Additionally, it elaborates an egalitarian principle underpinning the resulting model that I label Equality of Access and Deliberation. The upshot of these considerations is a novel and mutually reinforcing interrelated three‐tiered theoretical and institutional proposal.

Political Philosophies and Positive Political Psychology: Inter-Disciplinary Framework for the Common Good

“… Forst, 2001 ). Some try to bridge these two ( Pettit, 1997 ; Peterson, 2009 ; Hurt, 2018 ) or by terming both kinds of republicanism together as “civic republican deliberative democracy” ( Peterson, 2011 , Ch. 5).…”

Las teorías del derecho de secesión: un análisis republicano

“…Este ideal deliberativo tiene ciertamente un buen pedigrí republicano (Pettit, 1997, pp. 187-190;Sunstein, 1988;Bello Hutt, 2018), y desde un punto de vista republicano es claramente deseable que las democracias funcionen, en la medida de lo posible, de manera deliberativa, y por tanto que se diseñen sus instituciones para promover esta dinámica de deliberación. La cuestión es, sin embargo, que la mayoría de las veces, nuestras democracias modernas no funcionan de esa manera.…”

Electoral democracy and structural injustice

“…From these thinkers, I derive a concept of electoral democracy, one oriented around party competition, norms of compromise, and the dispersion of power. I should note here that neo‐republicanism is a broad tent, encompassing radical, critical, socialist, Rousseauvian, Machiavellian, deliberative, and virtue‐based strains (Bello Hutt, 2018; Daly, 2013; Honahan, 2014; Gadeke, 2020; Leipold, 2020; McCormick, 2011; O’Shea, 2020). Therefore, my engagement with Pettit and Bellamy is not intended to be an engagement with neo‐republicanism more generally.…”