In this paper I argue that the account of deliberative democracy advanced by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson (1996 … societies. More specifically, I illustrate how the prescriptions of deliberative democracy can be applied to the issue of … regulating non-medical uses of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), such as gender selection. Deliberative democracy does …

divergence in democracy and political rights is 4 to 5 times larger than the divergence in the path toward economic freedom and … ease of doing business. Democracy is not harder to predict than economic freedom — history and ethnicity predict it well …

into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project … ahead to new cosmopolitan possibilities freed from the twentieth century experiences of world war and economic depression …. What are at stake are the basic social arrangements created in the post-World War era for sharing the wealth, the burdens …