Laws have colonised most of the corners of political practice, and now substantially determine the process and even the product of democracy. Yet analysis of th

This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.

Today, deliberative democracy is the most widely discussed theory of democracy. Its proponents argue that important decisions of law and policy should ideally t

The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement

Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political s