I thought that it might be of interest to you that the ECPR Press has
recently published my book Political Conflict and Political
Preferences. Communicative Action Between Facts, Norms and Interests.
This book is about political conflict and political preferences and
the role of communicative interaction in politics. It is also a book
about deliberative democracy that addresses not so much the promise of
deliberation and how it is going to be fulfilled but rather the
fundamental empirical and analytical assumptions upon which it is
based. These assumptions concern rationality, political preferences
and the effects of communicative interaction on preferences. My goal
has been to propose a positive theory that takes a step towards
filling what are, in my eyes, important gaps in the theory of
deliberative democracy: the lack of an adequate model of
preference-transformation and the lack of a theory of the effects of
distinct institutional properties on interaction and actor preferences.
Below you will find further details and you can view the table of
contents by clicking here and sample pages by clicking here.
I am pleased to tell you that ECPR Press is offering a 20% discount
until 24th July 2009 and can be ordered online at
www.ecprnet.eu/publications/Landwehr.asp.
ABSTRACT
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?
The 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 coordination. 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.
READERSHIP
The book addresses various issues that are important to deliberative
democracy and the study of political interaction and provides an
assessment of a central bioethical conflict. It should hence be of
interest to students and scholars working in the fields of democratic
theory and bioethics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 health care in
international comparison. She has published on deliberative democracy,
communicative interaction and health care rationing.
Yours faithfully
Claudia Landwehr
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This book can also be ordered at the forthcoming conferences: APSA
Toronto, September 2009, and ECPR Potsdam, September 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-9558203-0-4
Page extent: 272 pp
ECPR Press, April 2009.
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