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Does Inclusion Require Democracy?

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Iris Marion Young's theory of democracy aims to accommodate the idea of difference by combining anti‐essentialist, identity conferring social groups and mediated socio‐economic relations. In this way they are supposed to combine instrumental rationality with inclusiveness and the recognition of difference. Using the political thought of F.A. Hayek, this paper mounts a critique of Young's difference theory. In particular it argues that Young's theory of group representation at the institutional level of politics contradicts her commitment to an anti‐essentialist account of groups. Whereas her account of group identity is necessarily fluid and inclusive, her account of recognition is rigid and exclusionary. Furthermore the epistemological demands of democratic communication and economic coordination undermine her instrumental account of public‐ decision making. In contrast it will be argued that Hayek's political thought provides instructive alternative way of addressing the tensions at the heart of Young's theory.

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  • Adam James Tebble, 2003. "Does Inclusion Require Democracy?," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 51(1), pages 197-214, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:51:y:2003:i:1:p:197-214
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00420
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