Steiner Jurg (University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill) - The Foundations Of Deliberative Democracy Empirical Research And Normative Implications - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Deliberative democracy is now an influential approach to the study of democracy and political behaviour. Its key proposition is that in politics it is not only power that counts but good discussions and arguments too. This book examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy. J rg Steiner presents the main normative controversies in the literature on deliberation including self - interest civility and truthfulness. He then summarizes the empirical literature on deliberation and proposes methods by which the level of deliberation can be measured rather than just assumed. Steiner's empirical research is based in the work of various research groups including experiments with ordinary citizens in the deeply divided societies of Colombia Bosnia - Herzegovina and Belgium as well as Finland and the European Union. Steiner draws normative implications from a combination of both normative controversies and empirical findings.
Title: The Foundations Of Deliberative Democracy Empirical Research And Normative Implications
Author(s): Steiner Jurg (University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781107625013
Pages: 288 Pages, 2 Line Drawings, Black And White
Publication Date: 7/30/2012
Category: Political Structures: Democracy