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Paper Instructions:

After carefully reading Gutmann & Thompson and Young, please develop a 750 word (this is minimum word count; you can write more but not less) response to the following question: Why does activism pose a central challenge to deliberative democracy?

In other words, compare and contrast how Gutmann & Thomas conceptualize deliberative democracy (especially in opposition to Habermas and Benhabib's model, and in terms of how they answers the objections to critics of deliberative democracy in pages 40-63).

Then, summarize the critique of deliberative democracy that Young presents through the activist character in her article.

Finally, develop a short argument in favor or against one of those challenges. That is, of the various critiques that activists raise against deliberative democracy, which do you think is the most problematic? Please make sure to clearly identify the problem, explain how it works, and why it poses such a challenge?

Please make sure you use the texts to support your answers, and please remember to quote properly. This means you will have to quote from previous weeks and from Habermas and Benhabib as appropriate.