The Empirical Research and Normative Implications / [electronic resource] Steiner, Jürg creator author. text enk 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Jürg Steiner. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Deliberative democracy JC423 .S8485 2012 321.8 9781139057486 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057486 UkCbUP 110310 20180107143416.0 CR9781139057486