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A Working Paper Series of the Committee on Concepts and Methods

Hans Agné, "Measuring Democratic Deliberation," November 2006
Abstract
This paper engages in current attempts at operationalising deliberative democracy. What political behaviour should we look for in order to assess the level or quality of deliberation? What institutions are relevant to study? Must the cognitive or psychological inside of people be accounted for? May standards of deliberation vary across institutions? How can empirical and normative research benefit from the results of each other? The paper identifies vulnerable points in arguments recently made in relation to these and related issues while suggesting directions in which the discussion can be developed. The aim of the paper is to identify general problems which must be resolved before empirical and theoretical research on deliberative democracy can be satisfactorily integrated.




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