Abstract
This article introduces the special issue focused on equality and equity in deliberative democracy. The essay proposes some initial working definitions of equity and equality and offers reasons why scholars and practitioners should attend to both. We outline the basic structure of the issue’s three sections and preview the contributors’ articles, with special attention to the opportunities and the challenges of achieving equality and equity within the deliberative system.
Highlights
Deliberative democrats have had much to say about equality and have long been concerned with creating conditions for it in discourse
How is equal respect constructed in deliberation? For example, if pursuing equality means treating everyone regardless of what they bring to deliberation, there are longstanding concerns that this approach can reproduce and reinforce enduring hierarchies of income, education, race, gender, or other characteristics (Young 2000; Sanders 1997)
As Edana Beauvais and André Bächtiger put it, equality asserts “the fundamental sameness of common humanity” and the need to “abstract from social circumstances,” while equity emphasizes “attending to” social circumstances and the resultant distribution of power and resources. The contributors to this issue take up this core distinction between equality and equity in a variety of different ways, and occasionally with slightly different terms, but all of them are confronting the common challenge of creating circumstances in which all deliberators can participate fully and even authoritatively
Summary
Carolyne; Karpowitz, Christopher F.; and Raphael, Chad (2016) "Equality and Equity in Deliberation: Introduction to the Special Issue," Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol 12 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. This Introduction is brought to you for free and open access by Public Deliberation.
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