Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Inclusion

In pluralized world, the crucial question in political philosophy is how to make legitimate decisions concerning common issues with others

In pluralized world, the crucial question in political philosophy is how to make legitimate decisions concerning common issues with others – with people that are different from us. In this paper I will first present a one potential way to answer these challenges – Seyla Benhabib’s formulation of the ideal of deliberative democracy. However, I will claim that this ideal faces several problems, for example, with respect to the question of inclusion under unjust conditions, where some social groups are more powerful and have more possibilities to affect the decision-making process.

Bio
Pilvi Toppinen (M. Soc. Sci.) is a researcher in the Academy of Finland’s research project at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is currently working with her dissertation study: Democratic perspectives – Political Philosophy between the Universal and the Particular. Her main areas of interests include: democracy, social justice, political equality, and difference.

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