Localism and Deliberative Democracy.

The article analyzes the characteristics of localism and its relevance to deliberative democracy. The deliberative democratic principles are both macro-focused, more on political conversation and micro-focused, more on the ideal speech situation. Hence, micro ideals are dominating in the localist environment where its context is more related to the system. In this regard, the author argues that this kind of approach can only damage democracy by weakening the motivation to participate in politics.