A sistemyc approach of deliberative democracy

Abstract

Under the theoretical debate about what is the most appropriate normative conception of the deliberative democratic model various rival proposals have been developed. More recently, Jane Mansbridge and John Parkinson in his work Deliberative Systems have explicit an interesting new perspective, which they called systemic. This new turn aims to assess the democratic legitimacy of political decisions, for which it proposes to adopt a large-scale approach that takes into account the interdependence between the different components of deliberative democratic system. This article will aim to: 1) Rebuild the conceptual and normative systemic approach; 2) Explain the different interpretations or versions that it can assume; 3) Rehearse arguments in defense of one of those versions. All this guided by the aim of highlighting the valuable theoretical contribution that the novel systemic deliberative approach has meant for the deliberative democratic theory.