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For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: [email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY A Thesis Submitted to the University of Warwick for the degree of PhD Bahadir Celiktemur September 2016 Department of Politics and International Studies iii Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................... viii Declaration ............................................................................................................................ viii Abstract ................................................................................................................................... ix INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 1 Setting the Stage: The Underlying Problem .............................................................................. 1 The Significance of the Problem .......................................................................................... 3 Thesis and Chapter Outline .................................................................................................. 7 Underlying Philosophy and Methodological Approach ..................................................... 11 Who are people with disabilities? ..................................................................................... 17 Learning Disability Partnership Boards and Meetings ....................................................... 19 Valuing People in Gloucestershire ..................................................................................... 24 CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................................................. 27 Deliberative Democracy and the Deliberative Citizen ............................................................... 27 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 27 I. "Deliberative Turns": Exclusion in Theory and Practice .................................................. 29 The First Generation: Normative Beginnings ................................................................. 29 The Second Generation: The Empirical Turn ................................................................. 35 The Third Generation: Deliberative Systems ................................................................. 39 Exclusion in Practice ....................................................................................................... 43 II. The Deliberative Citizen: A New Orientation ................................................................. 50 The Liberal Deliberative Citizen ..................................................................................... 50 From a Liberal to a Caring Orientation .......................................................................... 55 Definitions and Claims of a Caring Orientation .............................................................. 56 Care in Practice .............................................................................................................. 61 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 65 CHAPTER 2 ............................................................................................................................. 67 Mapping the Discussion: Paradigms and Models of Disability .............................................. 67 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 67 Perceptions of Disability: Three Paradigms ....................................................................... 68 1. Disability associated with a moral condition ............................................................. 69 2. Disability betwixt and between ................................................................................. 70 3. Disability as economic burden ................................................................................... 73 II. Models of Disability........................................................................................................ 73 The Medical Model ........................................................................................................ 74 iv The Social Model ............................................................................................................ 75 Critical Disability Studies ................................................................................................ 80 III. Deliberative Democratic Practices Risk Ableism ........................................................... 88 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 92 CHAPTER 3 ............................................................................................................................. 94 The Embodiedness of Disability and Deliberation ............................................................... 94 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 94 I. The Body and Embodied Citizenship ............................................................................... 95 Deliberative Democracy is Disembodied ..................................................................... 100 Deliberative Democracy Assumes Normality ............................................................... 103 Disembodiedness and Normality at Work ................................................................... 106 II. Employing Embodiedness for Inclusion ....................................................................... 110 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 123 CHAPTER 4 ........................................................................................................................... 125 Deliberative Perspectives..................................................................................................... 125 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 125 I. Deliberative Competence and Epistemic Superiority of Cognitive Diversity ................ 127 II. Significance of the Embodied Presence of the Disabled for Deliberative Opinion Formation and Transformation........................................................................................ 134 Embodied presence has a transformative effect on the interlocutors’ opinion formation ..................................................................................................................... 135 Embodied presence brings and maintains the perspectives of the disabled .............. 142 Secondary benefits of the embodied presence of people with disabilities ................. 148 III. Translating Presence to Preferences: Practical Implications ...................................... 151 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 160 CHAPTER 5 ........................................................................................................................... 161 Deliberative Spaces ............................................................................................................... 161 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 161 I. Space, Spatiality and People with Disabilities ............................................................... 163 II. The Micro-Spatial Arrangement of the Deliberative Site ............................................ 167 III. The Macro-Spatial Arrangement of the Deliberative System ..................................... 173 Putting Insights into Practice ........................................................................................... 178 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 182 CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................ 184 The Issue Identified and Explored .................................................................................... 184 The Liberal Deliberative Citizen ....................................................................................... 185 The Embodiedness of Disability and Deliberation ........................................................... 187 The Spatiality of Deliberative Sites .................................................................................. 188 v Solutions: An Inclusive Model for Deliberative