Deliberative Politics in Action: Analyzing Parliamentary Discourse (Theories of Institutional Design)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1 Institutions and behavior: the example of consociational theory......Page 9
The creation of the concept of a spirit of accommodation......Page 17
The concept of a spirit of accommodation in the testing phase......Page 19
Normative theories of deliberative politics......Page 24
Historical roots of the deliberative model......Page 35
Criticism of the deliberative model......Page 40
Empirical studies on deliberation......Page 51
The construction of a Discourse Quality Index (DQI)......Page 60
Participation......Page 64
Level of justification......Page 65
Respect......Page 66
Constructive politics......Page 67
A reliability test of the DQI......Page 69
Level of justification......Page 70
Content of justification......Page 71
Respect toward groups......Page 72
Respect toward counterarguments......Page 73
Constructive politics......Page 75
Further reliability tests of the DQI......Page 79
A theoretical framework......Page 82
Institutional and issue antecedents of political discourse......Page 86
Consensus versus competitive democracy......Page 87
The role of veto points/players......Page 90
Presidential versus parliamentary systems......Page 92
Public versus non-public arenas......Page 95
Polarized versus non-polarized issues......Page 96
Formal consequences of deliberation......Page 99
Substantive consequences of deliberation......Page 102
5 Antecedents of deliberation: institutions and issues......Page 106
Research design......Page 107
Legislatures......Page 108
Debates......Page 112
Dependent variable: discourse quality......Page 115
Consensus versus competition......Page 119
The role of veto players......Page 127
Presidential versus parliamentary systems......Page 130
First versus second chambers......Page 133
Public versus non-public arenas......Page 136
The role of polarization......Page 139
Conclusions......Page 143
Research design......Page 146
Context: the German Mediation Committee......Page 148
Case selection......Page 151
Measures of the formal dimension of outcomes......Page 152
Measures of the substantive dimension of outcomes......Page 153
Measures of the discourse quality......Page 155
Results for the formal dimension of outcomes......Page 158
Results for the substantive dimension of outcomes......Page 165
Conclusions......Page 170
Conclusion and research outlook......Page 173
Appendix Discourse Quality Index (DQI): instructions for coders......Page 178
Code 0: no justification......Page 179
Code 3: sophisticated justification......Page 180
Code 0: explicit statement concerning constituency or group interests......Page 181
Code 2b: explicit statement of the common good in terms of the difference principle......Page 182
Code 2: explicit respect......Page 183
Code 2: explicit respect......Page 184
Code 2: counterarguments are included – neutral......Page 185
Code 1: alternative proposal......Page 186
Code 2: mediating proposal......Page 187
References......Page 188
Index......Page 202