Beating the Odds: Confrontational Deliberative Democracy

Deliberation Against All Odds: The Potential and Pitfalls in Deeply Divided Societies, Forthcoming

17 Pages Posted: 23 Oct 2013

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Didier Caluwaerts

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Juan Ugarriza

Universidad del Rosario

Date Written: October 1, 2013

Abstract

Do the presence of unfavorable contextual conditions shall realistically lead to a renunciation to fulfill the highest standards of deliberative democracy? Is the inevitable persistence of inter-group confrontation an insurmountable challenge? A cross-sectional assessment of opportunities and pitfalls in a culturally diverse set of eleven deeply divided countries present a burden of evidence against a naïve expectation of translating deliberative models into them. However, this chapter describes a way in which legitimate factional claims might interweave with purely deliberative behavior in order to accommodate democratic confrontation without succumbing to patterns of unreasonable exchanges. Favorable conditions for this sort of confrontational deliberative democracy, at the institutional and citizen levels, are also specified.

Keywords: deliberative democracy

Suggested Citation

Caluwaerts, Didier and Ugarriza, Juan, Beating the Odds: Confrontational Deliberative Democracy (October 1, 2013). Deliberation Against All Odds: The Potential and Pitfalls in Deeply Divided Societies, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2343421

Didier Caluwaerts (Contact Author)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) ( email )

Pleinlaan 2
http://www.vub.ac.be/
Brussels, 1050
Belgium

Juan Ugarriza

Universidad del Rosario ( email )

Calle 12 No. 6-25
Bogota, DC
Colombia

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