Abstract
In Democracy without Shortcuts, Cristina Lafont elaborates the view that participatory deliberation is at the heart of every democracy and that both truth-tracking and mutual justification are the aims of democratic deliberation. What remains unconsidered in her approach is the economic framework in which democratic deliberation takes place. In my comment, I will take the following view: no political democracy without a democratisation of the economy. I will elaborate on this relationship as a concept of economic democracy. I will argue for that there is no political democracy without an economic democracy.
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