Hayekian Political Economy and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy.

Inspired by Habermasian critiques of liberalism, supporters of deliberative democracy seek an extension of social democratic institutions to further a reinvigorated communicative rationality against the ‘atomism’ of market processes. This paper offers a critique of deliberative democratic theory fro...

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Publicado en:Political Studies Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 722 - 740
Autor principal: Pennington, Mark
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Dec2003
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Sumario:Inspired by Habermasian critiques of liberalism, supporters of deliberative democracy seek an extension of social democratic institutions to further a reinvigorated communicative rationality against the ‘atomism’ of market processes. This paper offers a critique of deliberative democratic theory from a Hayekian perspective. For Hayek, the case against the social democratic state rests with the superior capacity of markets to extend communicative rationality beyond the realm of verbal discourse.