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Author Wolf, Michael R

Title Political Discussion in Modern Democracies : a Comparative Perspective
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Political discussion in modern democracies from a comparative perspective; Part I Deliberation and discussion as the object of analysis; 2 Dissecting deliberative democracy: A review of theoretical concepts and empirical findings; 3 The equality paradox of deliberative democracy: Evidence from a national Deliberative Poll; 4 What political discussion means and how do the French and (French- speaking) Belgians deal with it?
5 Participatory budgeting, political discussion networks and political information in two Brazilian cities6 Local partisan context and political discussion network construction: Minority party loyalty under challenge; 7 Voters' political conversations during the 2005 German parliamentary election campaign; Part II The consequences of discussion and deliberation; 8 The consequences of discussion and deliberation within networks: An introduction; 9 The impa
Summary Presents an overview of the study of political discussion in comparative politics. This book studies deliberation and discussion as the object of analysis. It makes a significant contribution toward broader theories of political communication, deliberative democracy, discussion networks analyses, and political behaviour
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Subject Political participation.
Democracy.
Political sociology.
Communication in politics.
Comparative government.
Communication in politics
Comparative government
Democracy
Political participation
Political sociology
Form Electronic book
Author Morales, Laura
Ikeda, Ken'ichi
ISBN 9780203850695
0203850696
1282629344
9781282629349