What is the effect of deliberation on political actors and when can
we expect it to be successful? Are mutual understanding and
consensus realistic results of political decision-making processes
or is compromise the most we can hope for? This book addresses what
appear to be blind spots in theories of deliberative democracy: the
conceptual and empirical relationship between communication and
political preferences and the institutional preconditions for
preference change and co-ordination. It proposes a model of
preference transformation through communication and develops a
typology of modes of political interaction that distinguishes
discussion, deliberation, debate and bargaining. This serves as a
framework for the analysis of a fundamental and highly polarising
conflict - the German decision over the import of embryonic stem
cells. Analysis of communicative interaction in different forums
shows how a well justified and widely accepted compromise was
achieved in a conflict that had appeared irresolvable in moral
terms and irreducible in terms of interest.
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