“Public Deliberation and Epistemic Parity in Direct Democracies”, by Léa Farine, has been published in the Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)
Abstract: “In a context of public-policy making, I propose to consider a fundamental norm of epistemic parity as contributing to the justification, the acceptability and the legitimacy of decisions taken through deliberative processes. I also suggest that models of semi-direct democracy, whose constitutional foundations include the possibility of deliberations among all citizens sanctioned by popular votes, promote epistemic parity.”
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