Alternative models of Deliberative Democracy. An approach toward the state of the art

Deliberative democracy, the concept that comes from the models of constitutional democracy and discursive democracy, defended respectively by Rawls Habermas, is confronted lately by several critical reactions that make more radical its alternative projections of the proposal of Rawls and Habermas approaches in the interpretations of the Third Frankfurt School, as well as republicanism and Negri and Hardt. This essay show the cartography of this debate suggesting its differences, tensions and affinities, which 1e us take place in that that constitute one of the most key theoretical and empiric debates in the political theory of XX century. Adapted from the source document.