Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy

“With increased attention to the quality of democratic decisions, political philosophers have recently been exploring anew what role expertise and public deliberation might properly play. Ivan Cerovac provides an excellent critical survey of these live de

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Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy Ivan Cerovac

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Ivan Cerovac

Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy

Ivan Cerovac Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka Rijeka, Croatia

Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy ISBN 978-3-030-44601-7 ISBN 978-3-030-44602-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44602-4

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Acknowledgements

The work on this book was supported by the Department of Humanities at the University of Trieste and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka. Its first draft was completed within my interdisciplinary research project “Identity, Values and Democracy” funded by DIANET—Danube Initiative and Alps Adriatic Network and the European Social Fund (FP134550000