Jürg Steiner, André Bächtiger, Markus Spörndli

Deliberative Politics in Action

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stressing the role of conversation, argument and negotiation in politics, particularly in democratic government, this book offers an empirical study of deliberative politics. Using the parliamentary debates in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as an empirical base, the authors measure the level of deliberation by constructing a discourse quality index, characterized by a high inter-coder reliability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780521535649
• ISBN-10: 0521535646
• Artikelnr.: 21518075

Autorenporträt

Jürg Steiner is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Bern. He is also Swiss Chair at the European University Institute in Florence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the research questions
1. Institutions and behaviour: the example of consociational theory
2. The philosophical literature on deliberative politics
3. Measuring deliberation: a Discourse Quality Index
4. Understanding the real world of deliberation: hypotheses about antecedents and consequences
5. The institutional antecedents of discourse
6. Discourse and its consequences
Conclusion and research outlook
Appendix: Discourse Quality Index (DQI).

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Introduction: the research questions; 1. Institutions and behaviour: the example of consociational theory; 2. The philosophical literature on deliberative politics; 3. Measuring deliberation: a Discourse Quality Index; 4. Understanding the real world of deliberation: hypotheses about antecedents and consequences; 5. The institutional antecedents of discourse; 6. Discourse and its consequences; Conclusion and research outlook; Appendix: Discourse Quality Index (DQI).

Rezensionen

'The authors of Deliberative Politics in Action provide an extensive review of the literature on deliberative democracy ... impressive research effort.' European Political Science