Political Conflict and Political Preferences: Communicative Interaction Between Facts, Norms, and Interests

Claudia Landwehr

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January, 2010
Paper, 200 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-9558203-0-4
European Consortium for Political Research Press
$38.00

What are the practical effects of deliberation and when can we expect it to be successful? Political Conflict and Political Preferences addresses what appears to be a blind spot in theories of deliberative democracy: the conceptual and empirical relationship between communication and political preferences. A model of preference transformation and the distinction between discussion, deliberation, debate, and bargaining as modes of political interaction serve as a framework for the analysis of a fundamental and highly polarizing conflict—the status and handling of embryonic stem cells.

Related Subjects

• Political Theory
• Politics and Political Theory

Series

• ECPR Monographs

About the Author

Claudia Landwehr is Schumpeter Fellow at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main. Previously she was a research fellow at the University of Hamburg and visitor at the Australian National University. Her present research concerns decision making procedures in the allocation of health care and the complex relationship between justice and democracy.

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