02174nam a22003258a 4500 CR9781139057486 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110310s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139057486 (ebook) 9781107015036 (hardback) 9781107625013 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda JC423 .S8485 2012 321.8 23 Steiner, Jürg, author. The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy : Empirical Research and Normative Implications / [electronic resource] Jürg Steiner. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Jürg 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. Deliberative democracy Print version: 9781107015036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057486 Cambridge Books Online 236769 236769