Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Educating Deliberative Citizens
5. Conceptions of the Good: Challenging the Premises of Deliberative Democracy 21
6. Religious Belief, Religious Schooling, and the Demands of Reciprocity 35
7. Religious Education and Democratic Character 54
8. Deliberative Democracy, Constitutions, and the Boundaries of Deliberation
9. Open versus Closed Constitutional Negotiation 77
10. Is Democracy a Means to Global Justice? 92
11. Deliberative Democracy and Indigenous Peoples
12. Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Reconciliation 115
13. Resisting Culture: Seyla Benhabib’s Deliberative Approach to the Politics of Recognition in Colonial Contexts 138
14. The Implications of Incommensurability for Deliberative Democracy 155
15. Citizen Dialogue and Decision Making in a Deliberative Democracy
16. Public Opinion and Popular Will 177
17. Consulting the Public Thoughtfully: Prospects for Deliberative Democracy 194
18. The Micropolitics of Deliberation: Beyond Argumentation to Recognition and Justice 209
19. References 232
20. Contributors 244
21. Index 247