Abstract
Guided by the egalitarian principles of "participatory deliberative democracy," this essay argues that working through the crux of the democratic challenge requires strong political leadership that is committed to opening up and democratizing policy formation within the executive branch of government. Our focus should be on democratizing those aspects of public administration that facilitate societal input into public policy-making, including, in particular, a renewed (and transformed) commitment to processes of democratic public consultation. Recognizing the challenges associated with marrying deliberative democracy with the institutions of liberal representative government, this essay reviews several recent examples of public consultation, and then concludes with a set of principles that navigates a line between advocating radical democratic reforms rooted in egalitarian democratic principles, and calling for the pragmatic extension of best practices in terms of current consultative processes.
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