TY - JOUR ID - ijpp:02-OMahony-2011-01-en T1 - Democracy, Complexity and Participation AU - Patrick O’Mahony Y1 - 2011/06/17/ N2 - The contemporary crisis of democratic governance, heralded in opposing political philosophies since the 1960s, carries on into the present. One response is simply to maintain the procedural core of a liberal-pluralist model of democracy. The essay, drawing inspiration from ideas of responsibility emerging from the civil societal periphery, instead follows more radical democratic models in proposing that the status and role of public participation, and with it deliberative democracy, should be rethought. The paper concludes with some reflections on the empirical-theoretical implications for social and political theory.  JF - Irish Journal of Public Policy JA - ijpp VL - 2011 IS - 01 CY - Cork PB - University College Cork SN - 2009-1117 AD - Department of Government UR - http://ijpp.ucc.ie/ ER