Deliberative Democracy

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Selen A. Ercan
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Deliberative democracy is a growing branch of democratic theory. It suggests understanding and assessing democracy in terms of the quality of communication among citizens, politicians, as well as between citizens and politicians. In this interview, drawing on his extensive research on deliberative practice within and beyond parliaments, André Bächtiger reflects on the development of the field over the last two decades, the relationship between normative theory and empirical research, and the prospects for practicing deliberation in populist times.

Deliberative Democracy and Comparative Democratization Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 489-501
Author(s):  
Nicole Curato ◽  
Jürg Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter provides an overview of the relationship between the normative theory and empirical research on deliberative democracy and comparative studies of democratization. We begin the chapter by making a case for the role of deliberation in democratic transitions. We provide case studies on each of the roles we identify to illustrate how precisely deliberation unfolds amidst sensitive political contexts. We then chart directions for deliberative democratic scholarship to deepen its engagement with democratization studies. We first focus on how deliberative democracy can speak to current indices that measure the quality of democracy, and then propose ways in which the literature on deliberative systems and sequences can further contribute to challenging our assumptions about what counts as “good” democratic transition.

Governance Networks

2018 ◽  
pp. 406-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Hendriks ◽  
John Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Governance Networks ◽  
Democratic Norms ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between deliberative democracy and governance networks, defined as policy partnerships of interdependent actors from public, private, and societal sectors. While many networks are built and operate around core deliberative democratic norms, such as trust, reciprocity, and loyalty, they can threaten others such as openness, publicity, democratic legitimacy, and accountability. The chapter considers the roles and risks that governance networks offer for public deliberation understood in broader systemic terms. It argues that networks play a number of important systemic functions: they generate ideas, inform deliberation, and provide opportunities for discursive connectivity. But empirical research reveals that networks can also pose pathologies for deliberative systems; they can be elite, exclusive, and dominated by special interests. A number of practical strategies are offered for how deliberative systems can boost the deliberative and democratic credentials of governance networks.

Walking in each other's Shoes: Perspective Taking Mediates Effects of Emotional Intelligence on Relationship Quality

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Schröder–Abé ◽  
Astrid Schütz
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
The Relationship

Although theorists have repeatedly emphasized that emotional intelligence should be linked to relationship quality, little empirical research has systematically examined emotional intelligence in romantic relationships using appropriate dyadic designs and analyses. The present research investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence and aspects of relationship quality (satisfaction, closeness and commitment). Study 1 was conducted online with 191 heterosexual couples. We found that a person's perceptions of relationship quality were predicted not only by that person's emotional intelligence, but also by the relationship partner's emotional intelligence. In Study 2, these positive actor and partner effects of emotional intelligence on relationship satisfaction and closeness were replicated in a sample of 80 couples in the laboratory. In this context, couples engaged in a conflict discussion, and perspective taking of the partners was rated by the experimenter. Actor–Partner Interdependence Mediation Model showed that perspective taking mediated the effects of emotional intelligence on relationship quality. The present research confirmed the link between emotional intelligence and relationship quality and sheds light on the processes through which emotional intelligence affects the quality of romantic relationships. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Prayer and Health: Conceptual Issues, Research Review, and Research Agenda

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Mccullough
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Research Review ◽  
The Relationship

The theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between prayer and health is critically reviewed. Although empirical research partially confirms that prayer promotes a variety of health outcomes, the empirical literature is characterized by weak methodologies that may contribute to the inconsistency of some findings. Recommendations are made for improving the quality of prayer and health research. An agenda for further empirical investigation of the relationship between prayer and health is proposed.

scholarly journals From public reason to deliberative democracy

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-256
Author(s):  
Ivan Mladenovic
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Public Reason ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I shall investigate the relationship between public reason and deliberative democracy, mainly as it is presented in Rawls?s later political theory. Against the critics who claim that Rawls has no deliberative democratic theory, I shall argue that he presented a complex view of public deliberation that contains a set of formal and substantive requirements derived from the idea of public reason. My main aim in this paper is to defend and further elaborate the thesis that Rawls?s later political theory is crucially important for deliberative democracy. Furthermore, in light of the recent literature on deliberative democracy, I examine the relevance of Rawls?s view for addressing some current problems, but also look at some limits of the public reason perspective.

scholarly journals Az online fogyasztói elégedettségmérés hatása a vállalatok versenyképességére (Effect of the online-customer satisfaction’s measurement to the corporate’s competitiveness)

2013 ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Ildikó Somogyi
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Measurement Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

A versenyképes működés elengedhetetlen feltétele a fogyasztói elégedettség, melynek egyik meghatározó eleme az észlelt és elvárt minőség közti kapcsolat. A minőségi elvárások az internettel, mint napjaink egyik meghatározó csatornájával kapcsolatban is megfogalmazódtak már, így kapott jelentős szerepet az online szolgáltatás minőségének meghatározása, illetve ezzel összekapcsolódva az online fogyasztói elégedettségmérés. Jelen tanulmány első része szakirodalmi áttekintést nyújt az online szolgáltatás minőségének fogyasztói érzékelésével, értékelésével kapcsolatos elméletekről, melyek az online fogyasztók elégedettségmérésének alapját képezik. Ezután kerül sor a különböző mérési módszerek bemutatására, kiemelt szerepet szánva a szakirodalomban sokat tárgyalt E-S-QUAL és E-RecS-QUAL skálának. Az áttekintés középpontjában azok az elméletek állnak, melyek az online vásárlást is nyújtó honlapokra vonatkoznak. A cikk további része két empirikus kutatást tartalmaz. Az első az elégedettségmérés hazai helyzetét tárgyalja, a másik pedig a szakirodalomból ismert E-S-QUAL és E-RecS-QUAL skálákat felhasználva részletesen elemzi az elektronikus szolgáltatásminőség dimenziói és a fogyasztói elégedettség közötti fontosabb összefüggéseket, emellett röviden vizsgálja az alkalmazott skálák megbízhatóságát és érvényességét. A kutatás fő célja a gyakorlati szakemberek számára is releváns kapcsolatok feltárása és bemutatása. _______ A company’s competitiveness significantly depends on the satisfaction of its consumers, which is influenced by the relationship between the expected and perceived quality. As over the last decade internet has become a significant channel, in parallel its customers have built some expectation about the quality of different websites and online services. Therefore the marketing literature should focus on the dimensions of e-service quality (e-sq) and online-customer satisfaction. This study first resumes with different concepts of e-sq, which are the principles of the online-customer satisfaction’s measurement. Than the different e-sq measurement methods are reviewed and the dimensions of E-S-QUAL and ERecS- QUAL scales are deeply explained. The study is focusing on concepts relating to web shops. The next part of the article includes two empirical studies. The first is about the situation of satisfaction measurement at Hungarian companies. The other one analyzes the most relevant relationships between the dimension of e-sq and customer satisfaction based on the E-S-QUAL and E-RecS-QUAL scales for measuring e-sq and briefly outlines the reliability and validity of these scales. The main purpose of this empirical research is to summarise the managerial and practical implications.

Civility and collective action: Soft speech, loud roars, and the politics of recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 217-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
The Public ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Analyzing the relationship between collective action and civility within the world’s largest democracy, this essay argues that, rather than being a precondition for democratic participation or a quality of individual comportment or manners, civility can be analyzed as an effect of political recognition and of the existence of a responsive structure of authority. Using ethnographic examples of recent collective assemblies held in southern India, the essay demonstrates the limits of both deliberative democracy approaches (Dryzek, Habermas, Rawls, Benhabib, Cohen, Farrelly) and agonistic pluralist models (Mouffe, Connolly, Honig, Arendt) for understanding democracy. If individual speech action is understood to run the gamut from polite and constructive participation in deliberation to antagonistic incivility, collective action is framed by both models as inherently oppositional and adversarial, rejecting or resisting authority and protesting against it, running a narrower gamut from agonistic intervention, which frames others as adversaries, to antagonistic refusals that frame others as enemies (Mouffe). There appears no space within either deliberative or agonistic frameworks for approaching collective action as non-adversarial participation in the public sphere on par with individual participatory contributions to deliberation. The ethnographic examples presented in this essay illustrate examples of collective action as efforts to “hail the state” and be included in its decision-making processes. These examples demonstrate that collective action can function as amplification of earlier communicative efforts that have gone unheard or been silenced. Illustrating the failure of both models to capture the larger processes that result in collective action, I conclude by presenting an analytic approach from the perspective of a former British colony that offers deeper understandings of collective forms of action as they relate to civility not only in India, but elsewhere as well.

scholarly journals Rökræða, þátttaka og þekking

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Birgir Hermannsson
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Epistemic Democracy ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
General Elections ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Models Of Democracy

In this article I will analyze the democratic theories of Vilhjálmur Árnason, Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson and Jón Ólafsson, compare them with each other and with theories which emphasize general elections as the only democratic method. The aim of deliberative democracy is consensus built on reason, the aim of a reformed executive branch is a better quality of government and professional policy making, and the aim of epistemic democracy is to use the knowledge found among the general public to formulate the right policy or at least a better one. The models of democracy used by Vilhjálmur Árnason to analyze Icelandic democracy receive critical attention and his account of deliberative democracy is placed within a more general academic discourse on deliberative democracy. His conception of deliberative democracy is criticized for being too narrow and institutional. Vilhjálmur Árnason and Jón Ólafsson need to clarify the relationship between deliberative democracy and epistemic democracy and elections. Vilhjálmur Árnason, Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson and Jón Ólafsson are all criticized for placing excessive emphasis on reason and knowledge in relation to democracy and too little emphasis on democracy as a venue for contested opinions.

scholarly journals A Framework for Critical-Empiricist Research in Political Communication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eike Mark Rinke
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Empirical Validation ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Communication Processes

Empirical research on political communication can play an important role in informing debates about the democratic value of various political communication processes. However, the degree to which political communication researchers can live up to this task depends on how systematically they relate their empirical investigations to concerns formulated in normative conceptions of democracy. In this paper, I present a framework for the empirical normative analysis of political communication. Based on the two core research procedures of normative assessment and empirical validation, it provides a model of the relations between normative and empirical research and a template for the empirical study of normatively relevant aspects of political communication. The paper systematizes the relations between normative theory and empirical reality, and discusses the two core procedures for empirical researchers to productively bridge the two. The framework is supposed to foster systematic exchanges between empirical studies of political communication and normative democratic theory and clarify the contribution of empirical studies to democratic theory, practice, and reform. It also implicates additional justification for greater use of controlled experimental research and cross-context comparative studies.

The Empirical Research on the Relationship of China’s GDP and Oil-Import

2012 ◽  
Vol 485 ◽  
pp. 469-472
Author(s):  
Yao Ji Ju ◽  
Jian Ming Li
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Var Model ◽  
Imported Oil ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
China’S Economy

In the current situation, Chinese economy is developing rapidly, and needs import huge quality of oil from different countries. About the relationship between Chinese GDP and quality of import, the thesis uses VAR model to analysis it. The econometric analysis result shows that GDP does Granger cause oil, and imported oil does Granger GDP. And it means that China’s economy development cause the increasing of oil-import and more oil helps the economy develop rapidly. In the end, we have some suggestions to safeguard country’s oil supply safety.

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