Democratic Theory

Democratic Theory and Contemporary Governance

Plato is one of the first scholars and philosophers who had talked about democracy and defined its concept. The deliberative theory was pushed out of the mass public into the deliberative venues of small scale. The fact that the theory got pushed out of the mass public caused it to split in between theory of deliberative democracy and theory of democratic deliberation (Chambers, 2009). Deliberative democracy revolves around handling issues related to how the civil society and public relate to the state whereas democratic deliberation emphasizes on taking distinct initiatives that are deliberative within a ...