When in the late 1990s Jürgen Habermas laid the foundations for what came to be called the "deliberative turn in democracy", what he was doing was trying to harmonise citizens' ability to reach agreements through shared norms with the establishment of a common democratic horizon based on the rational principles of equality, freedom and symmetry.
The possibility of citizens debating and influencing the aspects where politics governs their daily lives was not so evident until very recently, but today there are more and more experiences of participation that involve the voice of all those involved...
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