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- Title: Beyond Informed Citizens: Who are 'the Wise'?
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
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INTRODUCTION Since the early 1990's, there has been "an explosion of interest in the concept of citizenship among political theorists." (1) Taking for granted a large measure of justice in the basic institutions constituting a liberal democracy, theorists looked to citizens as the key to a successfully functioning democracy. (2) For, as German philosopher Jurgen Habermas observed, "the institutions of constitutional freedom are only worth as much as a population makes of them." (3) Moreover, theorists of citizenship agreed that, "... the health and stability of a modern democracy depends not only on the justice of its 'basic structure' but also on the qualities and attitudes of its citizens." (4) The 'informed citizen' is an ideal-typical person competent to participate in democratic self-governance. Informed citizens, it seems, are those who not only have acquired enough information on democratic institutions and current affairs to vote deliberately but also those who have sufficient civic virtue to look beyond private interests to a common good.
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