{"id":1010,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/comment-on-the-deliberative-democracy-in-150-words-upsc-psir-2019-0604\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:14","slug":"comment-on-the-deliberative-democracy-in-150-words-upsc-psir-2019-0604","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-the-deliberative-democracy-in-150-words-upsc-psir-2019-0604\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on the Deliberative democracy in 150 words."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">legitimacy from quality of reasoning, not counting of votes \u2192 voice over choice, debate over voting democracy as reasoned judgement among free, equal citizens \u2192 laws valid only through free deliberation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">hrm reject Bentham&#039;s aggregate democracy (sums preferences \u2192 majoritarianism) \u2192 Aristotle: collective deliberation beats isolated experts \u2192 Habermas: communicative action, better argument over power \u2192 Cohen: deliberation as legitimacy + handling moral disagreement \u2192 Rawls: public reason, reasons others can accept \u2192 qualitative participation \u2192 substantive democracy, informed citizens<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">power inequalities + dominant speech styles exclude weaker groups \u2192 time- consuming \u2192 fails to address real power relations<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">reason, not numbers, makes democracy substantive promise holds only if inequality and exclusion are overcome<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[37],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[51],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1010","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-37","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-democracy","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1010\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}