In the 21st century, dissatisfaction with the democratic arrangements contributed to the arousing curiosity about the improvement of representative democracy. Modern forms of political organization consider alternative ways of arranging the state. Deliberative democracy is the idea which became popular with the researchers in their theoretical considerations at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is also seen as a lucrative proposal to enrich and improve the mechanism accompanying the operation of the universal model of representative democracy. However, it should be taken into closer consideration that its solutions and postulates raise a number of questions and doubts, specifically as regards their applicability in practice. Scientific debate referring to the development of deliberative democracy did not establish any unified schools or currents. The discourse is internally diverse, however four generations of deliberative democracy might be identified. The ‘systemic turn’ exposes development and promotion of deliberation on a mass scale, emphasis on the division of activities and tasks of participants within the system, and – in order to link multiplicity of institutions and the processes that occur among them – application of a certain continuum to the criterion of deliberation.

Projekt dofinansowany ze środków budżetu państwa, przyznanych przez Ministra Edukacji i Nauki w ramach Programu „Społeczna Odpowiedzialność Nauki II” pt. „Współczesny obraz społeczeństwa polskiego w nauce i debacie publicznej”