The family-resemblance insight undercuts deliberative democracy’s aim of rational consensus.
Evidence
I submit that this is a crucial insight which undermines the very objective that those who advocate the ‘ddiberative’ approach present as the aim of democracy: the establishment of a rational consensus on universal principles. They believe that through rational ddiberation an impartial standpoint could be reached where decisions would be taken that are equally in the interests of alt. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 336
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Wittgensteinian analysis exposes how democratic consensus emerges — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 321; Common allegiance to pluralist democratic principles is necessarily a conflictual consensus — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 464; Most democracy concepts use necessary-and-sufficient structure while their measures use family resemblance. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 641 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Deliberative consensus theories wrongly deny pluralism’s constitutive conflict
#corroborates(0.93) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 469 - Deliberative democracy eliminates pluralism to achieve consensus, leaving it unable to answer Schmitt
#corroborates(0.88) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 225 - Common allegiance to pluralist democratic principles is necessarily a conflictual consensus
#responds-to(0.75) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 464 - Democratic legitimacy requires tacit constitutional consensus renewed each generation
#complicates(0.74) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 66 - Consensus is shaped and structured by unequal power rather than freely formed
#complicates(0.73) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 919 - Most democracy concepts use necessary-and-sufficient structure while their measures use family resemblance.
#expands(0.72) — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 641 - Democratic elections legitimize only as outcomes of prior public deliberation, not preference aggregation
#complicates(0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 94