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Professeur de droit et de sciences politiques aux États-Unis, l'auteur propose ici un dispositif particulier, pensé pour son pays mais transposable ailleurs, permettant d'éviter de conférer sous le coup d'une attaque terroriste des pouvoirs spéciaux sans contrôle au chef de l'exécutif. Comment autoriser le gouvernement à réagir dans l'urgence sans signer un blanc-seing risquant de dériver vers un état d'exception sans contrôle ?

Professors Ackerman and Alstott contrast their proposal for stakeholding with Philippe Van Parijs's proposal for a universal basic income. InThe Stakeholder Society (1999), Ackerman and Alstott proposed that the federal government give all U.S. citizens an $80,000 grant as they reach adulthood. The program's revenue cost is to be funded by an annual wealth tax of 2 percent and a "payback" requirement at death. Although stakeholding and basic income share common foundations in liberal political theory, Ackerman and Alstott discuss the principled and practical advantages of stakeholding and introduce Tony Blair'sU.K. proposal forChildren's Savings Accounts ("baby bonds"), which shares important features with stakeholding.

Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that is crippling public life. They propose a new national holiday-Deliberation Day-for each presidential election year. On this day people throughout the country will meet in public spaces and engage in structured debates about issues that divide the candidates in the upcoming presidential election.Deliberation Day is a bold new proposal, but it builds on a host of smaller experiments. Over the past decade, Fishkin has initiated Deliberative Polling events in the United States and elsewhere that bring random and representative samples of voters together for discussion of key political issues. In these events, participants greatly increase their understanding of the issues and often change their minds on the best course of action.Deliberation Day is not merely a novel idea but a feasible reform. Ackerman and Fishkin consider the economic, organizational, and political questions raised by their proposal and explore its relationship to the larger ideals of liberal democracy