By Christian F. Rostboll
The 1st sustained examine the connection among deliberative democratic concept and the subject of freedom.
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We might see the latter category of obstructions as a subset of the former. Not all our movements are aimed at attaining some goal, and not all our acts are expressions of our desires. 48 If I am about to drive off the road in the mountains and am prevented from doing so by the railing, then my movement is obstructed, but I am not prevented from doing something I want to do, assuming I am not on a suicidal mission. These remarks open up a wide range of issues to be answered by proponents of negative liberty, all of which I cannot go into.
Riker is best known for having argued (using insights from the social choice literature) that voting cannot reveal the Deliberation, Aggregation, and Negative Freedom 41 popular will, and that the idea of populist democracy therefore is incoherent. ”70 In response to this view, Riker makes a move that is typical for the tradition of which he is part. He says that we do not have to worry about the fact that aggregative mechanisms cannot reveal the will of the people, for there is an alternative conception of freedom that does not think the will of the people is their liberty.
According to Schumpeter, the will of the people is constructed from above, by political elites. The conclusion he draws from this is, roughly, that since the people have no will independently of the elites, then popular sovereignty is impossible, and we should let the elites rule. Deliberative democrats disagree with this so-called realist and uncritical conclusion. It might be true that “the popular will” today is fabricated from above, but that does not have to be the case; it is not a natural, unalterable fact about all politics.
