Two approaches to communicative rationality: analysing democratic deliberation and collective learning processes
Political theory’s deliberative turn has provided novel theoretical insights, variously interpreted, into the rationality of communication. The goal of this research note is to clarify how these theoretical arguments and concepts have informed empirical research. To this end, a number of studies in...
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=5608074 |
| Source: | Revista española de ciencia política, ISSN 1575-6548, Nº 41, 2016, pags. 141-158 |
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Political theory’s deliberative turn has provided novel theoretical insights, variously interpreted,
into the rationality of communication. The goal of this research note is to clarify how these
theoretical arguments and concepts have informed empirical research. To this end, a number
of studies in this area are examined, and the argument is made that at least two research models
inform empirical research, each of which embraces different methodological perspectives
and understandings of the concept of discourse. The standard, political theory approach regards
discourse as a regulative ideal, with which to assess actual political communication and
empirically identify cases of deliberation. Furthermore, it adopts a co-variational explanatory
template. The narrative, social theory model sees discourse as a counterfactual ideal in the
heads of participants in communication, and assumes a narrative methodological perspective.
These two models imply different theoretical choices with different implications for empirical
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