Deliberative Democracy for the Future : The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ethical Policy Analysis and Its Importance -- Risk, Uncertainty, and Futurity -- Positivism and the Rise of Non-positivist Critique -- The Ethical Primacy of Justice and Legitimacy -- 3 Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Policy: A Discourse of Two Coalitions -- Aikin Report and Seaborn Panel -- Government Response, Policy Framework, and Nuclear Fuel Waste Act -- The NWMO's National Consultation Process -- 4 Ethical Issues in Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Policy -- Future Generations -- Safety and Risk -- Burdens and Benefits -- Inclusion and Empowerment -- Accountability and Oversight -- Criteria for Ethical Policy Analysis -- 5 Ethical Schools: Welfare Utilitarianism, Modern Deontology, and Deliberative Democracy -- Welfare Utilitarianism -- Modern Deontology -- Deliberative Democracy -- 6 The Promises and Pitfalls of Deliberative Democratic Policy Analysis -- The NWMO's National Consultation Process Evaluated -- Inclusion -- Equality -- Reciprocity -- Precaution -- Agreement -- Lessons from Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Genevieve Fuji Johnson proposes that only deliberative democracy contains convincing conceptions of the good, justice, and legitimacy that provide for the justifiable resolution of debates about the moral foundations of public policy.

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