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Fung, Archon. "A Method of Reflective Equilibrium for Democratic Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39979_index.html>

Fung, A. , 2005-09-01 "A Method of Reflective Equilibrium for Democratic Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39979_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The method of democratic theory has been for the most part highly theoretical. Theorists have developed internally coherent and useful conceptions of democracy based upon first principles, intuitions about democratic value, and sometimes disciplined by various stylized facts.3 I shall discuss four of these: minimal, deliberative, egalitarian, and participatory conceptions of democracy. There has been little movement, however, in adjudicating between these ideals. In a Theory of Justice and other writings, John Rawls offers a method of reflective equilibrium for moral theory in order to help adjudicate between conceptions of justice such as utility, perfectionism, intuitionism, and his two principles. In the pages below, I develop an analogous method of reflective equilibrium that is appropriate for democratic theory. Its aim is to adjudicate between contesting conceptions of democracy and to stimulate the development of more satisfying conceptions. The paper offers a formal and abstract ideal reflective equilibrium process for democratic theory; constructs the two menus of alternatives on which reflective equilibrium in democratic theory works: conceptions of democracy and institutional configurations; and applies the reflective equilibrium approach to two important and common kinds of political problems: determining the rules of the game and addressing minority tyranny and capture.

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