Genevieve Fuji Johnson's Books

Democratic Illusion

Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

By: Genevieve Fuji Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democratic Illusion

Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

By: Genevieve Fuji Johnson

The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites. In Democratic Illusion, Genevieve Fuji Johnson examines four representative examples: participatory budgeting in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Deliberative Polling by Nova Scotia Power Incorporated, a national consultation process by the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization, and public consultations embedded in the development of official languages policies in Nunavut. In each case, measures that appeared to empower the public failed to challenge the status quo approach to either formulating or implementing policy. Illuminating a critical gap between deliberative democratic theory and its applications, this timely and important study shows what needs to be done to ensure deliberative processes offer more than the illusion of democracy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442611243

ISBN 13

9781442611245

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada

By: Genevieve Fuji Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada

By: Genevieve Fuji Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080209032X

ISBN 13

9780802090324

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada

By: Genevieve Fuji Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada

By: Genevieve Fuji Johnson

In today's world, public policies are increasingly associated with social and environmental risk and scientific uncertainty. Given such potential impacts on the moral freedom and equality for existing and future generations, policies should reflect decision-making standards beyond those of economic efficiency and technical safety. They should reflect the imperatives of social justice and democratic legitimacy now and into the future. Deliberative Democracy for the Future identifies an approach to ethical policy analysis that promises to serve the ends of justice and legitimacy in areas of public policy such as hazardous waste management, energy generation and regulation, climate change control, and genomics research and commercialization. Based on a wide reading of ethical approaches to policy analysis found in contemporary political theory, moral philosophy, and public policy literatures, it evaluates these three central approaches to ethical policy analysis in light of moral dilemmas arising in a particularly timely case: Canadian nuclear waste management policy. The volume's central argument is that the most desirable approach to ethical policy analysis contains the philosophical tools necessary to address problems of understanding risk and safety, identifying obligations to both existing and future generations, and conceptualizing legitimacy-conferring decision-making processes. Genevieve Fuji Johnson argues that neither welfare utilitarianism nor modern deontology is sufficiently equipped for these tasks. She proposes that only deliberative democracy contains convincing conceptions of the good, justice, and legitimacy that provide for the justifiable resolution of debates about the moral foundations of public policy. Responding to challenges in nuclear waste management in ways more comprehensive and more tenable than both utilitarianism and deontology, deliberative policy analysis promises to be an effective approach to other cases associated with risk, uncertainty, and futurity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442691077

ISBN 13

9781442691070

Democratic Illusion

Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

By: Genevieve Fuji-Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democratic Illusion

Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

By: Genevieve Fuji-Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442624264

ISBN 13

9781442624269

Book's by Genevieve Fuji Johnson

Democratic Illusion

Democratic Illusion

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

Deliberative Democracy for the Future

Democratic Illusion

Democratic Illusion

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email