Political Theory 39:4 (August 2011), 468-97.
This essay takes as its starting point an apparent tension between theories of democratic deliberation and democratic theories of multicultural accom- modation and makes the case that many multiculturalists and deliberative democrats converge on an ideal of political freedom, understood as non- domination. It argues for distinguishing two dimensions of nondomination: inter-agentive nondomination, which obtains when all participants in a power relation are free from rule by others who can set its terms, and systemic nondomination, which obtains when the terms of a power relation itself are responsive to those they affect. Because inter-agentive and systemic non- domination do not covary, it is critical to distinguish between them, in order to build and practices that promote both.