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Political Conflict and Political Preferences : Communicative Interaction Between Facts, Norms and Interests, Paperback / softback Book

Political Conflict and Political Preferences : Communicative Interaction Between Facts, Norms and Interests Paperback / softback

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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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