Rational choice and democratic deliberation : a theory of discourse failure / Guido Pincione, Fernando R. Tesón

Author:: Pincione, Guido
Published:: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:: xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Tesón, Fernando R., 1950-

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The allure of deliberation -- Rational choice and political discourse -- The epistemic argument for deliberation -- Political illiteracy : an illustration -- Discourse failure -- Patterns of political belief -- Discourse failure and cognitive psychology -- Persuasive definitions -- Discourse failure and desert -- The cost of dissent -- The rational choice framework -- Instrumental and epistemic rationality -- Rational choice and morality -- Why our argument is not ad hominem -- A note on empirical testing -- The resilience of discourse failure -- Reliable social science and opacity -- Deliberative institutions -- Good policies, bad reasons -- Shortcuts -- Deliberation, free speech, and truth -- Deliberation as a regulative ideal -- Deliberative democracy, Condorcet, and Bayes -- Symbolism in political argument -- Self-defeatingness as symbolism -- Symbolic behavior in politics -- Symbolic and causal utility: Nozick's challenge -- Symbolizing as the intended outcome -- Are self-defeating reformers rational? -- Why political deliberators appear to neglect consequences -- Discourse failure and political morality -- The moral turn -- Balancing, deontology, and the display test -- Direct involvement in evildoing -- Split responsibility -- Causal complexity in political argument -- Moral error -- Enforcement and causation -- A note on religious morality -- A note on the minimum wage and employment -- Types of discourse failure : a summary -- Non-epistemic defenses of deliberation -- Deliberation as the exercise of autonomy -- Sincerity in deliberation -- Deliberation and social conflict -- Deliberation and impartiality -- Deliberation, participation, and equality -- Is discourse failure always bad? -- Deliberation, consent, and majority rule -- Consent and reasonableness -- Deliberation, justice, and rights -- Deliberation and majority rule -- Vote indeterminacy -- The courtroom analogy -- Substantive principles and deliberative politics -- Overcoming discourse failure : voluntary communities -- A contractarian society -- Contracts and truth -- Contracts and compromise -- The paradox of contract -- Further objections and replies -- Discursive advantages of voluntary communities -- Loose ends.

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0521862698 (hardback)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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