Deliberative Democracy…
- At 13 June, 2016
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DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF THE COMMONS
[La democracia deliberativa y el problema de los comunes]
Juan Nascimbene
Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
jnascimbene@gmail.com
Avenida Paseo Colón 275, 8º piso, CP 1063 – CABA – Argentina
ABSTRACT
Following Hardin’s paper of “The tragedy of the commons”, it has been traditionally sustained that the government should manage public good resources since their private management would lead to their depletion. However, Elinor Ostrom has challenged this account by identifying a specific type of Common-pool resources that, under circumstances of trust and fluid communication between the parties involved, can be efficiently managed by groups of individuals. In this context, it is this paper’s contention that the postulates of deliberative democracy are compatible with an efficient management of common-pool resources. Thus, this finding would contradict literature that autocratic governments are more effective in managing natural resources.
Key words: deliberative democracy, Common-pool resources, Ostrom, Tragedy of the Commons
