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  1. The place of self-interest and the role of power in deliberative democracy.Jane Mansbridge, James Bohman, Simone Chambers, David Estlund, Andreas Føllesdal, Archon Fung, Cristina Lafont, Bernard Manin & José Luis Martí - 2009 - Journal of Political Philosophy 18 (1):64-100.
  2. Rhetoric and the Public Sphere.Simone Chambers - 2009 - Political Theory 37 (3):323-350.
    The pathologies of the democratic public sphere, first articulated by Plato in his attack on rhetoric, have pushed much of deliberative theory out of the mass public and into the study and design of small scale deliberative venues. The move away from the mass public can be seen in a growing split in deliberative theory between theories of democratic deliberation (on the ascendancy) which focus on discrete deliberative initiatives within democracies and theories of deliberative democracy (on the decline) that attempt (...)
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    Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse.Simone Chambers - 1996 - Cornell University Press.
    In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies. Beginning with a deceptively simple question—"Why is talking better than fighting?"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She (...)
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    Balancing epistemic quality and equal participation in a system approach to deliberative democracy.Simone Chambers - 2017 - Social Epistemology 31 (3):266-276.
    In this paper, I argue that the asymmetrical mediated communication of the broad democratic public sphere can profitably be understood through the lens of deliberative democracy only if we adopt a system approach to deliberation. A system approach, however, often introduces a division of labor between ordinary citizens and experts. Although this division of labor is unavoidable and I believe compatible with a deliberative principle of legitimacy, it flirts with elitist theories of democracy: epistemic elites come up with the agendas, (...)
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  5. Behind Closed Doors: Publicity, Secrecy, and the Quality of Deliberation.Simone Chambers - 2004 - Journal of Political Philosophy 12 (4):389-410.
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  6. Bad Civil Society.Simone Chambers & Jeffrey Kopstein - 2001 - Political Theory 29 (6):837-865.
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    Democracy and constitutional reform: Deliberative versus populist constitutionalism.Simone Chambers - 2019 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 45 (9-10):1116-1131.
    Constitutional reform has been an important means to push populist authoritarian agendas in Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Venezuela. The embrace of constitutional means and rhetoric in pursuit of these agendas has led to the growing recognition of ‘populist constitutionalism’ as a contemporary political phenomenon. In all four examples mentioned above, democracy, popular sovereignty and direct plebiscitary appeal to the people is the rhetorical and justificatory framework for constitutional reform. This, I worry, gives democracy a bad name and reinforces the widespread (...)
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    Human Life Is Group Life: Deliberative Democracy for Realists.Simone Chambers - 2018 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 30 (1-2):36-48.
    ABSTRACTSkepticism about citizen competence is a core component of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels’s call, in Democracy for Realists, for rethinking our model of democracy. In this paper I suggest that the evidence for citizen incompetence is not as clear as we might think; important research shows that we are good group problem solvers even if we are poor solitary truth seekers. I argue that deliberative democracy theory has a better handle on this fundamental fact of human cognition (...)
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    Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth.Simone Chambers & Jeffrey Kopstein - 2023 - Constellations 30 (3).
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  10. Theories of Political Justification.Simone Chambers - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (11):893-903.
    This essay reviews contemporary theories of public justification. In particular, it argues that conceptions of public justification and public reason have moved significantly beyond Rawls.
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    How Religion Speaks to the Agnostic: Habermas on the Persistent Value of Religion.Simone Chambers - 2007 - Constellations 14 (2):210-223.
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    Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy.Simone Chambers - 2004 - Constellations 11 (2):153-173.
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    The Many Faces of Good Citizenship.Simone Chambers - 2013 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 25 (2):199-209.
    ABSTRACT Diana Mutz's individual-level data show that participation and deliberation are often inversely related. This, according to Mutz, undermines many claims made by deliberative-democratic theory. However, a systemic approach to deliberative democracy challenges the significance of this finding. Although it is true that some citizens are political activists not open to hearing the other side and other citizens are less active but more open minded, both types of citizens make equally important and positive contributions to deliberative politics when it is (...)
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    Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society.Simone Chambers & Will Kymlicka (eds.) - 2001 - Princeton University Press.
    This text considers how a host of ethical traditions define civil society.
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    Deliberative democracy and the digital public sphere: Asymmetrical fragmentation as a political not a technological problem.Simone Chambers - 2023 - Constellations 30 (1):61-68.
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  16. The politics of critical theory.Simone Chambers - 2004 - In Fred Leland Rush (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press. pp. 219--247.
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    Democracy and critique.Simone Chambers - 2015 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (3):213-217.
    In this article I challenge Rainer Forst’s model of critical theory from the point of view of democratic theory. I suggest that his approach is too abstract and hypothetical to address the real world challenges facing democratic polities today.
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    Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason?Simone Chambers - 2012 - In T. Williamson (ed.), Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 17.
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    CHAPTER 5 A Critical Theory of Civil Society.Simone Chambers - 2001 - In Simone Chambers & Will Kymlicka (eds.), Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Princeton University Press. pp. 90-110.
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    Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions.Simone Chambers - 2023 - Contemporary Political Theory 22 (3):117-120.
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    Putting Reasons Back into Reasonable.Simone Chambers - 2023 - In Dimitrios Karmis & Jocelyn Maclure (eds.), Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 192-207.
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  22. Can procedural democracy be radical?Simone Chambers - 2002 - In David Ingram (ed.), The Political. Blackwell. pp. 168--88.
     
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    Contract or Conversation? Theoretical Lessons from the Canadian Constitutional Crisis.Simone Chambers - 1998 - Politics and Society 26 (1):143-172.
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    Book Review: Political Philosophy versus History? Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought: Jonathan Floyd and Marc Stears, EdsPolitical Philosophy versus History? Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought, edited by FloydJonathanStearsMarc. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. [REVIEW]Simone Chambers - 2013 - Political Theory 41 (4):676-679.
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    “Who shall judge?” Hobbes, Locke and Kant on the construction on public reason.Simone Chambers - 2009 - Ethics and Global Politics 2 (4):349-368.
    This paper investigates early modern and enlightenment roots of contemporary ideas of public reason. I argue that concepts of public reason arose in answer to the question ‘who shall judge?’ The religious and moral pluralism unleashed by the reformation lead first to the weakening of authoritative common forms of reasoning, this in turn and more importantly lead to the question who is the final arbiter when a political community is faced with deep disagreement about political/ moral questions. The rise of (...)
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  26. Dissent on Core Beliefs: Religious and Secular Perspectives.Simone Chambers & Peter Nosco (eds.) - 2015 - Cambridge University Press.
    Difference, diversity and disagreement are inevitable features of our ethical, social and political landscape. This collection of new essays investigates the ways that various ethical and religious traditions have dealt with intramural dissent; the volume covers nine separate traditions: Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, liberalism, Marxism, South Asian religions and natural law. Each chapter lays out the distinctive features, history and challenges of intramural dissent within each tradition, enabling readers to identify similarities and differences between traditions. The book concludes with (...)
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  27. Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason?Simone Chambers - 2012 - In Martin O'Neill & Thad Williamson (eds.), Property‐Owning Democracy. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 15–32.
    This chapter contains sections titled: What Is Equality? From the Fact of Inequality to the Fact of Pluralism The Difference Principle Ideals Latent in Public Political Culture How Egalitarian Are We? Outside of the Bounds of Public Reason References.
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    Review: Axel Honneth, Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life. [REVIEW]Simone Chambers - 2016 - Ethics 126 (2):505-509.
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    Book ReviewsSharon R Krause,. Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 262. $29.95. [REVIEW]Simone Chambers - 2009 - Ethics 119 (3):571-576.
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    Talking about rights: Discourse ethics and the protection of rights.Simone Chambers - 1993 - Journal of Political Philosophy 1 (3):229–249.
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    Book Reviews:Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation. [REVIEW]Simone Chambers - 2009 - Ethics 119 (3):571-576.
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    Seeking intersubjective insight: Comments on William Rehg's insight and solidarity. [REVIEW]Simone Chambers - 2002 - Human Studies 25 (3):397-405.
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    Reasoning: A social picture.Simone Chambers - 2015 - Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2):e205.
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    Reasoning: A social picture.Simone Chambers - 2015 - Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2):e205-e207.
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    Honneth, Axel. Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life.New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. 412. $35.00. [REVIEW]Simone Chambers - 2016 - Ethics 126 (2):505-509.
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    Is it Enough to Just Say No to Nazis? Comments on Stephen White’s A Democratic Bearing.Simone Chambers - 2018 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 44 (2):121-125.
    In this paper I pose two questions for Stephen White and his aspirational model of citizenship. The first is to ask what ethical sources do citizens need to oppose the presence of Nazis in our public sphere. The second is to question White’s deep suspicion of foundationalism and theism as sources of an open and democratic bearing and indeed as sources from which we can build strong opposition to Nazis.
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  37. Public Reason that Speaks to People : Iris Marion Young and the Problem of Internal Exclusion.Simone Chambers - 2007 - Les Ateliers de L’Ethique 2 (1):36-40.
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    Substantive and Procedural Dimensions of Critical Theory.Simone Chambers - 2009 - In Tracy B. Strong & Richard Madsen (eds.), The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World. Princeton University Press. pp. 336-340.
  39. INTRODUCTION Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society.Simone Chambers & Will Kymlicka - 2001 - In Simone Chambers & Will Kymlicka (eds.), Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Princeton University Press. pp. 1-10.
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    Community, leadership and continuity.Simone Chambers - 2017 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3):296-297.
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    The cultural foundations of public policy: A comment on Georgia Warnke.Simone Chambers - 2000 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 26 (3):75-81.
    This article argues that the equality versus difference dispute in feminism is not essentially a dispute about the basis of public policy as Georgia Warnke implies. Furthermore, rarely can public policy issues concerning women be resolved by direct appeal to interpretation. Interpretation should be understood as offering a model of cultural transformation rather than public policy adjudication. Key Words: deliberation • democracy • difference • equality • feminism • interpretation.
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