Beyond deliberative democracy

Abstract

The article contrasts the theories of Habermas and Nino showing the complexity of the idea of deliberative democracy, while maintaining that a critic of the theories of Habermas and Nino opens the possibility of outlining a vision that transcends democratic deliberation. He develops then how the authors understand democracy and link their visions between democratic deliberation and moral analysis, and with ethical and transactional issues. Habermas points out that Nino allows more distinctions, but when explaining both authors democracy solely in terms of the deliberative model, overlook important aspects of the democratic process, such as communicative exchanges non-deliberative and discursive interactions which allows us to understand that the democratic idea has roots in radically dissimilar contexts.