Kan vi prata om det? Deliberativ demokrati, mångfald och politisk kamp
DiversityDeliberative democracyRadical democracyPublic sphereContestation of discoursesSocial sciencesSamhällsvetenskaperPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapSocial SciencesLaw and Political Science
In recent years the liberal representative democracy has been subject of a substantial critique because of its inability to accommodate difference and createa genuinely democratic political process. One such critique comes from the theory of deliberative democracy. Supporters of deliberative democracy try to promote a model of democracy that take its vantage point in free and equal deliberationbetween all relevant actors in a political community. This model has with some success opposed the aggregative model of democracy, and in important ways turned the attention to the potential of deliberative processes.However, the deliberative model is still somewhat underdeveloped when it comes to issues of diversity and difference. This essay deals with such deficiencies by analysing deliberative democracy in the light of the critiquelaunched by difference- and radical democrats. I will attempt to give an account of how deliberative democracy can deal with difference and diversity in aconstructive way. Thus, my aim is to give a theoretical outline of how the concept of deliberative democracy best be used in a multicultural context.