Political Conflict and Political Preferences - Communicative Interaction Between Facts, Norms and Interests (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	ECPR Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Claudia Landwehr
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-9558203-0-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Promotions
LSN:	0-9558203-0-8
Barcode:	9780955820304

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