Political Conflict and Political Preferences - Couverture souple

Landwehr, Claudia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955820308 ISBN 13 : 9780955820304

Editeur : RL, 2009

Synopsis

What are the practical effects of deliberation and when can we expect it to be successful?Political Conflict and Political Preferences addresses what appears to be a blind spot in theories of deliberative democracy: the conceptual and empirical relationship between communication and political preferences. A model of preference transformation and the distinction between discussion, deliberation, debate, and bargaining as modes of political interaction serve as a framework for the analysis of a fundamental and highly polarizing conflictthe status and handling of embryonic stem cells.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claudia Landwehr is a Schumpeter Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main. She has previously been a junior research fellow at the University of Hamburg and an academic visitor at the Australian National University and Harvard University. Her research focuses on theories of democracy and justice and, more recently, on the distribution of healthcare in international comparison. She has published on deliberative democracy, communicative interaction and health care rationing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: RL
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955820308
• ISBN 13: 9780955820304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 271
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible