{"product_id":"mapping-and-measuring-deliberation-towards-a-new-deliberative-quality-9780199672196","title":"Mapping and Measuring Deliberation: Towards a New Deliberative Quality","description":"Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic procedures are arbitrary and do not reflect popular will; indeed, that the idea of popular will is itself illusory.\u003cbr\u003eOn the contrary, deliberative democrats have shown that people are capable of being sophisticated, creative problem solvers, given the right opportunities in the right kinds of democratic institutions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut deliberative empirical research has its own problems. In this book two leading deliberative scholars review decades of that research and reveal three important issues. First, the concept 'deliberation' has been inflated so much as to lose empirical bite; second, deliberation has been equated\u003cbr\u003ewith entire processes of which it is just one feature; and third, such processes are confused with democracy in a deliberative mode more generally. In other words, studies frequently apply micro-level tools and concepts to make macro- and meso-level judgements, and vice versa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstead, Bachtiger and Parkinson argue that deliberation must be understood as \u003cem\u003e contingent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e performative\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e distributed\u003c\/em\u003e. They argue that deliberation needs to be disentangled from other communicative modes; that appropriate tools need to be deployed at the right level of analysis; and that\u003cbr\u003escholars need to be clear about whether they are making \u003cem\u003e additive\u003c\/em\u003e judgements or \u003cem\u003e summative\u003c\/em\u003e ones. They then apply that understanding to set out a new agenda and new empirical tools for deliberative empirical scholarship at the micro, meso, and macro levels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andre Bachtiger, John Parkinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199672196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndre Bachtiger, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research, University of Stuttgart\u003c\/em\u003e, John Parkinson, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Politics, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndre Bachtiger holds the Chair of Political Theory at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart. His research focuses on the challenges of mapping and measuring deliberation and political communication as well as understanding the preconditions and outcomes of high-quality deliberation in the contexts of both representative institutions and mini-publics. His research has been published by Cambridge University Press and in the \u003cem\u003e British Journal of Political Science\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e European Journal of Political Research\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003e Journal of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003e Journal of Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eResolution\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e European Political Science Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Political Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e Acta Politica\u003c\/em\u003e. He is co-editor of \u003cem\u003e The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (with John S. Dryzek, Jane J. Mansbridge, and Mark E. Warren, forthcoming 2018, OUP), \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Parkinson is Professor of Politics, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra. He is an applied democracy theorist who works on the relationships between formal law and policy making and the broader public sphere, crossing boundaries between normative political theory, interpretive political analysis, cultural theory, and public policy. His current research project compares the deliberative quality of two starkly contrasting cases: a campaign to recognize indigenous peoples in the Australian constitution, and the Scottish independence debate of 2012-2014, using novel electronic social science tools. A former editor of the \u003cem\u003e Australian Journal of Political Science\u003c\/em\u003e, his research has been published by Oxford University Press and in the \u003cem\u003e British Journal of Political Science\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Democratization\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Public Administration\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e Political Studies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40262042255475,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":83.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_886ab550-4c63-44dc-8fdb-185cfee66d99.jpg?v=1657634398","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/mapping-and-measuring-deliberation-towards-a-new-deliberative-quality-9780199672196","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}