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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.
Contents
contents
Introduction 1
Chapter one: Preference and Decision 9
Chapter two: Communicative Interaction and Preference-Formation 51
Chapter three: Institutional Context and Modes of Interaction 90
Chapter four: Case Study: The German Decision on the
Importation of Embryonic Stem Cells 132
Chapter five: Case Analysis: Forums, Modes of Interaction
and Preference-Formation in the Stem-Cell Conflict 159
Conclusion 221
Appendix 227
Bibliography 233
Index 245
