1-Deliberative Democracy as An Alternative Model to Representative Democracy
The outlook of public debates in representative democracy managed by elites will be reviewed, governance crisis caused by numerical majority rule of representative democracy will be determined, contribution of deliberative democracy in reducing and removing the extending gap between elites and public will be revealed.
2-Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Deliberative Democracy
Expansions of this normative political theory to democracy theory will be evaluated in theoretical and methodological levels. On the other hand, experiences gained from situations and formations perceived as practice sample will be analyzed, feasibility of the theory will be open up to discussion based on strong and weak aspects, projections on future prospects will be presented.
3-Is Deliberative Democracy a Strong Civil Society Formation Project?
How to build an intellectual and participatory democratic structuring, how to spread deliberative democracy by civil society organizations will be argued.
4- Deliberative Democracy in Dialog of Civilizations
The ways to have dialogs between different civilizations through deliberative democracy will be debated, and especially its possible contributions in building new communication bridges between Eastern and Western civilizations will be evaluated.
5- A Local Look to Deliberative Democracy: It’s Place in Turkish Political Life
Over the areas being perceived as practice samples of deliberative democracy in Turkey; possible problems, priorities in the evolution from representative democratic structure to deliberative democratic structure will be determined in country scale.
6- The Effects of Technological Transformation on Deliberative Democracy
Its possible contributions in building communication bridges displayed by new social and political debate grounds emerging with developments in communication technology, social contributions of e-government and also strengthening the supervision role of the government and expansion possibilities provided by the theory in preventing negative results of this development will be evaluated.
