Identifying Deliberation in Social Movement Assemblies: Challenges of Comparative Participant Observation

• Published in: Journal of deliberative democracy Vol. 4; no. 1
• Main Authors: Christoph Haug, Simon Teune
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Westminster Press 18.01.2008
• Subjects: assembly; comparison; deliberation; discourse; participant observation; social movements

Contemporary social movements can serve as a critical case for the empirical study of deliberation. In countless face-to-face meetings activists often discuss long hours before a decision is reached. In this context, we try to analyse the conditions under which deliberation is successfully employed...