The purpose of this paper is to assess the democratic potential of New Community Schools (NCS) as initiated by the Scottish Executive as one of its first major interventions. It traces the background to the initiative, locates it within the particular circumstances of the historical, political and cultural contexts of Scotland, and defines its particular ambivalence with regard to deliberative ...

Abstract In this paper I provide a decolonial critique of received knowledge about deliberative democracy. Legacies colonialism have generally been overlooked in theories These omissions challenge several key assumptions argue that democracy does not travel well outside Western sites and its begin to unravel the ‘developing’ regions world. The context for is ongoing violent conflicts over resou...