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161Why Deliberative Democracy is DifferentSocial Philosophy and Policy 17 (1): 161. 2000.In modern pluralist societies, political disagreement often reflects moral disagreement, as citizens with conflicting perspectives on fundamental values debate the laws that govern their public life. Any satisfactory theory of democracy must provide a way of dealing with this moral disagreement. A fundamental problem confronting all democratic theorists is to find a morally justifiable way of making binding collective decisions in the face of continuing moral conflict
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113Representing future generations: political presentism and democratic trusteeshipCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 13 (1): 17-37. 2010.Democracy is prone to what may be called presentism – a bias in the laws in favor of present over future generations. I identify the characteristics of democracies that lead to presentism, and examine the reasons that make it a serious problem. Then I consider why conventional theories are not adequate to deal with it, and develop a more satisfactory alternative approach, which I call democratic trusteeship. Present generations can represent future generations by acting as trustees of the democr…Read more
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69Hume's SkepticismDissertation, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. 1998.David Hume has traditionally been regarded as a skeptic, perhaps the most formidable in the history of Western philosophy. Since the publication of Norman Kemp Smith's Philosophy of David Hume in 1941, however, there has been an increasing tendency to downplay the skeptical dimension of Hume's philosophy, in some cases to the point of denying that Hume is a serious skeptic, or even a skeptic at all. Much of the motivation for a nonskeptical reading of Hume comes from recognition of his endorseme…Read more
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62Why Deliberative Democracy?Princeton University Press. 2004.The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and Disagreement.What exactly is deliberative democracy? Why is it more defensible than its rivals? By offe…Read more
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55Democracy in Time: Popular Sovereignty and Temporal RepresentationConstellations 12 (2): 245-261. 2005.
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46Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and HealthcareCambridge University Press. 1980.In this important collection of essays Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices. Combining theory and practice with many concrete examples and proposals for reform, these essays could be used in courses in applied ethics or political theory and will …Read more
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44Democratic disagreementIn Stephen Macedo (ed.), Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement, Oxford University Press. pp. 243. 1999.
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436. The Moral Foundations of Truth CommissionsIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 160-188. 2000.
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42Previous Works Jointly Authored by Amy Gutmann & Dennis ThompsonIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 209-210. 2004.
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361. What Deliberative Democracy MeansIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-63. 2004.
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31Political EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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28Power and Resistance: Perpetuating and Challenging Capitalist ExploitationContemporary Political Theory 6 (1): 4-23. 2007.Although oppressive social practices like capitalism are often portrayed as static, totalizing social 'structures' with 'logics' and 'imperatives' that must be accommodated politically and economically, such portrayals are problematic both theoretically and politically. They rest on determinist and essentialist conceptions of social practices, and they curtail the scope of politics, government regulation, and human action and creativity. Fortunately, social practices can instead be conceptualize…Read more
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26Truth versus Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2000."This book discusses the vast and complex range of choices in between blanket amnesty and total accountability through criminal justice, and does so with ...
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26The institutional turn in professional ethicsEthics and Behavior 9 (2). 1999.This Article does not have an abstract
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26Democratic Secrecy: The Dilemma of AccountabilityPolitical Science Quarterly 114 (2): 181-193. 1999.
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20Constitutional Character: Virtues and Vices in Presidential LeadershipPresidential Studies Quarterly 40 (1): 23-37. 2010.
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174. Why Deliberative Democracy Is DifferentIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 125-138. 2004.
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122. Moral Conflict and Political ConsensusIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 64-94. 2004.
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11Pourquoi la démocratie délibérative est-elle différente ?Philosophiques 29 (2): 193-214. 2002.Tous les théoriciens de la démocratie ont à confronter le problème fondamental qui consiste à trouver une façon moralement justifiable de prendre des décisions collectives contraignantes face à des désaccords moraux persistants. Une théorie délibérative de la démocratie nous fournit l’approche la mieux défendable de ce problème parce qu’elle laisse ouverte la possibilité que les valeurs morales exprimées par un large éventail de théories puissent être justifiables. Le principe fondamental de not…Read more
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93. Deliberative Democracy beyond ProcessIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 95-124. 2004.
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8Conflicts of InterestIn Ezekiel J. Emanuel (ed.), The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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3ContentsIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. 2004.
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2PrefaceIn Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. 2004.
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2The concept of conflicts of interestIn The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 758--766. 2008.
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2Deliberative Democracy Beyond ProcessIn James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell. 2003.Why Reciprocity Requires Deliberation Why Reciprocity Requires Substantive Principles Why the Principles should be Morally Provisional Why the Principles should be Politically Provisional When Moral and Political Judgments Conflict Notes.
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20th Century Philosophy |
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