Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory

Antonino Palumbo (PhD) is a political theorist working on globalization, the transformation of governance and the implications of changes in state steering for modern representative democracies. Since 2002 he has been teaching in political philosophy at Palermo University (Italy), where is an associate professor. His research interests are in analytical theories of the state, democracy and governance; normative policy analysis.

• Chapter 1: Deliberative Democracy as a Conceptual Landscape.- Chapter 2:Guardian Models of DD: Knowledge, Expertise and the Revival of Epistocracy.- Chapter 3: Epistemic Models of DD: Reasoning and Judging in an Epistemically Correct Way.- Chapter 4: Integrative Models of DD: Representing and Arguing for the Common Good.- Chapter 5: Radical Models of DD: Digitising and Networking for Demarchy.- Chapter 6: Recasting Democracy as a Metagame.- Chapter 7: Bibliographical References.