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The concluding chapter revisits the tensions between deliberative democracy and power. These tensions are not pathological aberrations, but constitutive of deliberative practice. Deliberative democracy is relevant precisely because it is entangled with rather than insulated from complex relationships of power in contemporary times. The challenge for deliberative democracy is to maintain its ethos of reflexivity, epistemic humility, and capacity to imagine better futures.
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The liberal and deliberative approaches must not be viewed to be in competition. Neither does deliberative democracy see itself quite apart from the participatory, radical, and electoral traditions. There are certainly connections across these approaches, and where they differ is on the emphasis of virtues that govern collective life.
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Curato, N., Hammond, M., Min, J.B. (2019). Conclusion. In: Power in Deliberative Democracy. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95534-6_6
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