TY  - GEN
T1  - Deliberative democracy and divided societies
A1  - O'Flynn, Ian
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn173359153
AB  - In a world where the impact of internal conflicts is spreading ever wider, there is a real need to rethink how democratic ideals and institutions can best be implemented. This book responds to this challenge by showing that deliberative democracy has crucial, but largely untapped, normative implications for societies deeply divided along ethnic lines. Its central claim is that deliberative norms and procedures can enable the citizens of such societies to build and sustain a stronger sense of common national identity. More specifically, it argues that the deliberative requirements of reciprocity and publicity can enable citizens and representatives to strike an appropriate balance between the need to recognise competing ethnic identities and the need to develop a common civic identity centred on the institutions of the state. Although the book is primarily normative, it supports its claims with a broad range of empirical examples, drawn from cases such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Macedonia, Northern Ireland and South Africa. It also considers the normative implications of deliberative democracy for questions of institutional design. It argues that power-sharing institutions should be conceived in a way that allows citizens as much freedom as possible to shape their own relation to the polity. Crucially, this freedom can enable them to reconstruct their relationship to each other and to the state in ways that ultimately strengthen and sustain the transition from ethnic conflict to democracy.
OP  - 181
CN  - JC423 .O28 2006eb
SN  - 9780748627035
SN  - 0748627030
SN  - 9780748672004
SN  - 0748672001
SN  - 1280953225
SN  - 9781280953224
SN  - 9786610953226
SN  - 6610953228
SN  - 074862144X
SN  - 9780748621446
KW  - Democracy.
KW  - Nationalism.
KW  - Ethnic relations : Political aspects.
KW  - Ethnic conflict : Prevention.
KW  - Nationalisme.
KW  - Relations interethniques : Aspect politique.
KW  - nationalism.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : Democracy.
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Ethnic conflict : Prevention
KW  - Ethnic relations : Political aspects
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Deliberative Demokratie
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Democratie.
KW  - Sociale conflicten.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -