02177nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082001400248100003000262245013600292264005200428300005900480336002600539337002600565338003600591500007300627520099900700650002701699776003501726856007101761999001901832CR9781139057486UkCbUP20180107143416.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110310s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139057486 (ebook)  z9781107015036 (hardback)  z9781107625013 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aJC423 b.S8485 201200a321.82231 aSteiner, Jürg,eauthor.14aThe Foundations of Deliberative Democracy :bEmpirical Research and Normative Implications / [electronic resource]cJürg Steiner. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (288 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aDeliberative 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. 0aDeliberative democracy08iPrint version: z978110701503640uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057486zCambridge Books Online  c236769d236769