this paper investigates the possibility of attending to iran’s constitutional shi’i jurisprudence as a perspective for approaching toward deliberative democracy. it claims there is an epistemological potentiality where it is possible to think of the theory of deliberative democracy from a specific islamic shi’i jurisprudential theory stated by mirza mohammad hossein na’ini (1890-1939) during th...

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in what follows, i would like to contribute to a defense of deliberative democracy by giving an affirmative answer to the question in the title. the goal is admittedly humble. For the coherence of an ideal says nothing about its desirability, feasibility or overall appropriateness.1 and, indeed, i will not address these further issues here. but, though humble, the goal of assessing the coherenc...

Public trust is critical in any project requiring significant public support, both in monetary terms and to encourage participation. The research community has widely recognized the centrality of public trust, garnered through community consultation, to the success of large-scale epidemiology. This paper examines the potential utility of the deliberative democracy methodology within the public ...

The essay reflects upon the deliberative democracy and upon the limits and possibilities of the municipal health councils to become institutions that practice and settle it. It is shown that such councils face a process of institutional delegitimization that can subtract their importance in the decision-making process, a risk enhanced by the political crisis that the country is experiencing. Fo...

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Inspired by Habermasian critiques of liberalism, supporters of deliberative democracy seek an extension of social democratic institutions to further a reinvigorated communicative rationality against the ‘atomism’ of market processes. This paper offers a critique of deliberative democratic theory from a Hayekian perspective. For Hayek, the case against the social democratic state rests with the ...

Last year, deliberative democracy in mass organization gained great importance in China, which made new demands on the All-China Women’s Federation in representing and integrating the female interests, and also provided it new opportunities to strengthen its function in community governance. Facing the new characteristics, the authors analyze how the Shanghai Women’s Federation develops the res...