Shortcuts?

Abstract

Democracy without Shortcuts is a book written in the shadow of the work of the later Rawls while within the framework of the later Habermas to whom the book is dedicated. The ultimate contention of Cristina Lafont is that her orientation to participatory deliberative democracy is ‘without shortcuts’, while the other orientations to deliberative democracy take shortcuts. I have a suspicion that this claim is somewhat ironic, an issue that I will take up after reviewing the argument of the book.