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A range of institutional mechanisms have been advocated to ensure the practical application of deliberative democracy, and these are now being employed in practice throughout the UK. However, different institutional mechanisms will be suited to the enactment of variant democratic principles and will be able to adapt to some features of complexity and not others. This means certain institutional devices will be able to operate effectively at different levels of governance, but not at others, and contribute to some, but not all, stages of a decision-making sequence, within different political systems. A comprehensive and systematic comparison of the relationship these institutions have to deliberative democracy is therefore required so that these institutions can be effectively sequenced to ensure all the key elements of deliberative democracy are enacted in the UK political system, at each level of governance and stage of decision-making. This paper therefore develops the ‘Deliberative Pragmatic Equilibrium Review’ (DePER) framework to enable such a comparison of institutional mechanisms, with respect to how they enact key principles of deliberative democracy, by combining normative and empirical analysis through the employment of Fung’s (2007a) ‘pragmatic equilibrium’ approach. The framework is applicable to all political systems, but is here tailored specifically for institutional comparison in the UK, although it is not applied to concrete cases in this paper.
Author(s): Elstub S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Year: 2014
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 386-409
Print publication date: 01/08/2014
Online publication date: 30/01/2013
Acceptance date: 01/01/2013
Date deposited: 02/03/2016
ISSN (print): 1369-1481
ISSN (electronic): 1467-856X
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.12000
DOI: 10.1111/1467-856X.12000
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