Download or read book Deliberative Politics in Action written by Jürg Steiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressing the role of conversation, argument and negotiation in politics, particularly in democratic government, this book offers an empirical study of deliberative politics. Using the parliamentary debates in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as an empirical base, the authors measure the level of deliberation by constructing a discourse quality index, characterized by a high inter-coder reliability.