{"title":"Dissecting the Micro-Deliberative Approach","authors":"André Bächtiger, J. Parkinson","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199672196.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199672196.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter three distils lessons about deliberation from two decades of standard, quantitative political science methods in two contexts: deliberative minipublics and parliaments. The discussion reveals that while such pioneering research has generated rich results about preference transformation and citizens’ capacities to engage in quite sophisticated deliberation, it has also tended to treat such venues as closed systems, isolated from their social and political contexts; to over-generalize from what are rare conditions. Related problems with research on parliaments are then discussed. The picture that emerges is highly ambiguous: the classic elements of deliberation turned out not to be a single phenomenon but several, which did not vary in the same direction; and there are trade-offs between deliberative and democratic standards. But there are also important methodological problems that, the chapter argues, means the results give less comfort to sceptics about the value of deliberation.","PeriodicalId":407974,"journal":{"name":"Mapping and Measuring Deliberation","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129733951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Directions in Micro Research","authors":"André Bächtiger, J. Parkinson","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199672196.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199672196.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter four assesses a series of proposals in the literature for refinements to, and escape routes from, the dilemmas posed in chapter three. They reject a series of amendments that contextualize deliberation in somewhat crude ways, often through simple typologies that link communicative and setting types. Such approaches fail to appreciate the fact that deliberative acts can mean different things given goals and contexts, and underplay both agency and social creativity in complex settings. Instead, the authors recommend disentangling deliberation from other communicative modes and deploying a much broader range of methods to understand meanings in context, as well as a broader understanding of what contextual awareness entails.","PeriodicalId":407974,"journal":{"name":"Mapping and Measuring Deliberation","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121844789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing and Measuring Deliberativeness","authors":"André Bächtiger, J. Parkinson","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199672196.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199672196.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter seven takes the results of the four previous chapters and discusses their implications for the analysis of deliberation per se (a micro phenomenon) and the deliberative quality of democratic systems (a macro one). After specifying contrasting implications of the additive and summative views, it then looks at what kinds of methods can address the key research questions that have arisen in the discussion, recommending a problem-led, pluralist approach rather than insisting that deliberative democracy can only be studied by either qualitative or quantitative means. The chapter then surveys a number of novel methods that can be used to map and measure deliberative quality, from formal indicators to more qualitative tools, including new computer-aided methods developed in corpus linguistics and psychology, and gives examples from a current project on Scottish independence.","PeriodicalId":407974,"journal":{"name":"Mapping and Measuring Deliberation","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123240090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}