power in interpersonal relationships
public engagement approaches
power and political theory
key debates in power
democratic thought
democracy and democratization
democratic theory
deliberative democracy
Deliberative democracy denotes a normative model of democracy that rests on the belief in the persuasive power of systematic argumentations and resolutions reached in public debates and in the central role of understanding-oriented communicative action. Thus, this model of democracy is intimately connected with the discourse theory of philosopher Jürgen Habermas. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Deliberative Democracy]
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