The Media and the Public Sphere: A Deliberative Model of Democracy

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Foreword 1. Introduction Notes References 2. Democracy, discourse and the public sphere: the deliberative approach 2.1 Deliberative democracy: a general definition 2.2 Morality, legitimacy and democracy: the Habermasian perspective 2.2.1 Challenges and criticism of deliberative democracy 2.3 The deliberative public sphere 2.4 Hypotheses Notes References 3. Methods and measures of deliberation 3.1 From the ideal to the real: the measurement of discourse quality 3.1.1 Empirical approaches to deliberation 3.1.2 Measuring the quality of political discourse: three approaches 3.1.3 Building discourse quality dimensions for the media 3.2 Assessing discourse quality: the social network paradigm and the power of coalitions 3.2.1 The discursive space: social network analysis and deliberative quality 3.2.2 Discourse quality and discourse coalitions 3.3 Selecting the national context: the UK 3.4 Sampling the media coverage 3.5 Political debates and public sphere types 3.5.1 Unilateral disarmament (1960) 3.5.2 Commonwealth immigration (1965) 3.5.3 Secondary picketing (1980) 3.5.4 The Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) 3.5.5 Fuel protest (2000) 3.5.6 Anti-terrorism legislation (2005) 3.6 Summary of research design Notes References 4. The media and the deliberative quality of public spheres 4.1 Inclusiveness 4.1.1 Who is the most balanced of them all? 4.1.2 Inclusion or exclusion? Discursive access to the public sphere 4.1.3 Inclusiveness as diversity 4.1.4 Conclusion 4.2 Role change 4.2.1 Deliberation and symmetric interaction: initial observations 4.2.2 The deliberative symmetry of public spheres 4.2.3 Deliberative roles and discursive spaces 4.2.4 Conclusion 4.3 Reciprocity 4.3.1 Monologue or dialogue? 4.3.2 Inclusion or exclusion? The reciprocity of discursive spaces 4.3.3 Reciprocal density and discursive integration 4.3.4 Conclusion 4.4 Reflexivity 4.4.1 Dumbing down or reflexive? 4.4.2 The equality of reason? 4.4.3 Who’s the most reflexive of them all? 4.4.4 Conclusion 4.5 Perspectives: the content of justifications 4.5.1 The breadth of democratic debate 4.5.2 The public sphere as a web of reasons 4.5.3 The centres and peripheries of reason 4.5.4 Conclusion: actors, reasons and the drivers of deliberation Notes References 5. Democratic conflict and deliberative coalitions 5.1 Agreement and endorsement coalitions 5.2 Demand coalitions 5.3 Criticism coalitions 5.4 Political conflict and disagreement as the driving forces of deliberation Notes References 6. Conclusion 6.1 Strong and weak public spheres 6.2 Disagreement and deliberation Notes References Sources sampled Codebook Index