TY  - JOUR
A1  - Milstein, Brian
T1  - Justification crisis: Brexit, Trump, and deliberative breakdown
T2  - Political theory
N2  - This essay explores the problem of legitimation crises in deliberative systems. For some time now, theorists of deliberative democracy have started to embrace a “systemic approach.” But if deliberative democracy is to be understood in the context of a system of multiple moving parts, then we must confront the possibility that that system’s dynamics may admit of breakdowns, contradictions, and tendencies toward crisis. Yet such crisis potentials remain largely unexplored in deliberative theory. The present article works toward rectifying this lacuna, using the 2016 Brexit and Trump votes as examples of a particular kind of “legitimation crisis” that results in a sequence of failures in the deliberative system. Drawing on recent work of Rainer Forst, I identify this particular kind of legitimation crisis as a “justification crisis.”
KW  - democracy
KW  - deliberative systems
KW  - legitimation crisis
KW  - Brexit
KW  - Trump
KW  - Rainer Forst
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62217
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-622177
SN  - 1552-7476
VL  - 49
IS  - 4
SP  - 554
EP  - 583
PB  - Sage Publ
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.]
ER  -