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Procedural Democracy, the Bulwark of Equal Liberty - Maria Paula Saffon, Nadia Urbinati, 2013
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Procedural Democracy, the Bulwark of Equal Liberty

Maria Paula Saffon and Nadia UrbinatiView all authors and affiliations
Volume 41, Issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591713476872

Abstract

This essay reclaims a political proceduralist vision of democracy as the best normative defense of democracy in contemporary politics. We distinguish this vision from three main approaches that are representative in the current academic debate: the epistemic conception of democracy as a process of truth seeking; the populist defense of democracy as a mobilizing politics that defies procedures; and the classical minimalist or Schumpeterian definition of democracy as a competitive method for selecting leaders.

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Maria Paula Saffon ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. She also holds a law degree. She does research on distributive justice, democracy and property rights, the causes of political violence, and human rights. She has written several articles and book chapters on these subjects, and she coedited Distributive Justice in Transitions (2010), Comparative Legal Critique (2011, in Spanish), and Transitional Justice without Transition? (2006, in Spanish).
Nadia Urbinati ([email protected]) is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University and the author of Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (Chicago 2006); her new book Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People is forthcoming for Harvard University Press.
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