This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.

Deliberative democracy is an embattled political project. It is accused of political naiveté for it only talks about power without taking power. Others, meanwh

Laws have colonised most of the corners of political practice, and now substantially determine the process and even the product of democracy. Yet analysis of th

Examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy.

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics o