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How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? This book explores how civil society 'thickens' by comparing two decades of rural citizens' struggles to hold the Mexican state accountable, exploring both change and continuity before, during and after national electoral turning points.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- THE NATURE OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS -- 1 Two Principles of Human Association -- 2 Commentary: Shared Commitment and the Legal Principle -- 3 Commentary: Transcending Privacy -- 4 Voluntary Association as a Rational Ideal -- 5 Commentary: Constitutional Ideals and Private Associations -- 6 Man and Society: An Examination of Three Models -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 7 Voluntary Association and the Political Theory of Pluralism -- 8 Rousseau on Intermediate Associations -- 9 Some Remarks on Tocqueville's View of Voluntary Associations -- PLURALISM IN PRACTICE -- 10 The Public Values of the Private Association -- 11 Commentary: Pluralism, Empiricism, and the Secondary Association -- 12 Private Government in the Managed Society -- 13 Voluntary Association: The Basis of an Ideal Model, and the "Democratic" Failure -- 14 The Constitution and the Voluntary Association: Some Notes Toward a Theory -- 15 Corporative Organization: The Case of a French Rural Association -- Epilogue

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The contributors -- 1 Introduction: democracy as public deliberation -- Normative perspectives -- Institutional perspectives -- Part I Normative perspectives -- 2 Political legitimacy and democratic deliberation -- Justice in multicultural societies -- Neutrality -- Perfectionism -- Deliberation -- 3 Five arguments for deliberative democracy -- The process of public deliberation has an educative power -- The process of public deliberation has a community-generating power -- The procedure of public deliberation improves the fairness of democratic outcomes -- Public deliberation contributes constructively to the practical rationality of democratic outcomes -- Deliberative democracy elucidates an ideal of democracy that is most congruent with 'who we are' -- Conclusion -- 4 Deliberation, citizenship and identity -- Deliberative obligations -- Arguments for deliberation -- Citizenship and identity -- Conclusion -- 5 Rawls and deliberative democracy -- Layered ambiguities: Rawls on public reason -- The Rawlsian mirror -- The more things change ... -- Forward to the origins? -- Part II Institutional perspectives -- 6 Deliberation and decision making: discontinuity in the two-track model -- Deliberative democracy: the basic model -- Deliberation and decision making: a two-track model? -- Bridging the apparent discontinuity -- Augmenting motivational concerns with institutional ones -- Conclusion -- 7 Citizens' juries and deliberative democracy -- Towards deliberative institutions -- Citizens' juries: innovative deliberative institution? -- Inclusivity -- Deliberation -- Citizenship -- Lessons from citizens' juries? -- 8 Democratic deliberation and cultural rights: the Orange Order march at Drumcree -- Deliberative democracy and deep conflict