Effective Opportunity and Democratic Deliberation
Document Type
Review
Publication Date
6-1-2007
Description
This article develops a conception of effective opportunities of minority speakers that is tied to the possibilities of conceptual innovation in informally inclusive democratic deliberation. My argument proceeds through a critical engagement with Brian Barry and Bikhu Parekh on what it means to have an equal opportunity in a multicultural society. I claim that the exchange between Barry and Parekh reaches a conceptual deadlock over the possibility of producing a substantive revision in the concept of equality. I break this conceptual deadlock, however, by appeal to the potential of diverse speakers in informal deliberation to reinvent the meanings of their basic political terms of co-operation.
Citation Information
Allen, Michael. 2007. Effective Opportunity and Democratic Deliberation. Politics. Vol.27(2). 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2007.00283.x ISSN: 0263-3957