This book offers a comprehensive and sustained critique of theories of deliberative democracy.

One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregative models of d

Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics o

A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.