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From <ref>Cohen, J. (1989). Deliberation and democratic legitimacy. Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy, 342.</ref>
'''The public good and not the sector good''':: Based on Rawl's justice: In a well-ordered democracy, political debate is organized around alternative conceptions of the public good. So an ideal pluralist scheme, in which democratic politics consists of fair bargaining among groups each of which pursues its particular or sectional interest, is unsuited to a just society<ref>Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice (Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard University.p360-361</ref>Citizens and parties operating in the political arena ought not to ‘take a narrow or group-interested standpoint’ (p. 360). And parties should only be responsive to demands that are ‘argued for openly by reference to a conception of the public good’ (pp. 226, 472).Public explanations and justifications of laws and policies are to be cast in terms of conceptions of the common good (conceptions that, on Rawls’s view, must be consistent with the two principles of justice), and public deliberation should aim to work out the details of such conceptions and to apply them to particular issues of public policy (p. 362).
In debate and common disccusions in the Knesset, parties are arguing for their narrow intrests, and not the common good. Deliberation should help a common good resulotions.
'''in a just society political opportunities and powers must be independent of economic or social position''':
It should be taken care that the political decisions are not influenced by concentrations of money and social class<ref>Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice (Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard University. pp. 225–6, 277–8; 1982, pp.42–3.
'''The development of of political competence''':
:Third, democratic politics should be ordered in ways that provide a basis for selfrespect,that encourage the development of a sense of political competence, and that contribute to the formation of a sense of justice.
==Democratic assessment of collaborative planning processes==