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    <title>EconStor Collection: Discussion Papers, Abteilung Zivilgesellschaft und transnationale Netzwerke, WZB</title>
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      <title>Discourse quality and political decisions: an empirical analysis of debates in the German conference committee</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49593</link>
      <description>Title: Discourse quality and political decisions: an empirical analysis of debates in the German conference committee
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Spörndli, Markus
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Dieses Papier untersucht Einflüsse von Deliberation auf Entscheidungen im Kontext repräsentativer Politik. Es testet Hypothesen der deliberativen Demokratietheorie, dass eine hohe Diskursqualität Konsense wahrscheinlicher macht (formale Dimension einer Entscheidung) und distributiv gerechtere Resultate fördert (substanzielle Dimension einer Entscheidung). Die mehrheitlich quantitativen Analysen stützen sich auf Wortprotokolle mehrerer Debatten des deutschen Vermittlungsausschusses. Dafür werden Indikatoren entwickelt, die verschiedene Dimensionen diskursiver Politik operationalisieren und zu einem Diskursqualitätsindex (DQI) kombiniert werden können. Die empirischen Resultate zeigen, dass die generelle Diskursqualität einen eigenständigen positiven Effekt auf die formale Dimension einer Entscheidung hat. Hingegen ist die Diskursqualität praktisch ohne Einfluss auf die substanzielle Dimension einer Entscheidung, die fast ausschließlich von den Mehrheitsverhältnissen abhängt.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Access to human genetic resources: materials from a transnational stakeholder dialogue</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49587</link>
      <description>Title: Access to human genetic resources: materials from a transnational stakeholder dialogue
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: van den Daele, Wolfgang; Döbert, Rainer; Seiler, Achim
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This report summarizes deliberations over the Access to Human Genetic Resources held during a stakeholder dialogue process launched by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in 2001/2002. The dialogue process was designed to explore options of companies to address contested issues of intellectual property in their business strategies. To that end, companies were exposed to the concerns of stakeholders and urged to define responses to these concerns. The project involved major companies and transnational non-governmental organizations as well as renowned experts in the field of intellectual property rights. This paper briefly sketches the project and the process of the dialogue. The products of the process are the opinions, both concurring and dissenting, that the participants reached on the access to human genetic resources, subsumed in the final report to the WBCSD that emerged from the project. This paper also reviews documents (Circulars) from the proceedings, which further illustrate the dynamics of the deliberations, and the range and direction of arguments exchanged by the participants.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Das Spiel in der experimentellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49588</link>
      <description>Title: Das Spiel in der experimentellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Fietkau, Hans-Joachim
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Dem Spielen und dem Experimentieren ist Vieles gemeinsam. Durch beides lernen wir. Im Spiel wie im Experiment werden bestimmte Konstellationen oder Situationen hergestellt, und wir beobachten, wie sich das uns Interessierende verhält. Spiel und Experiment sollen einander näher gebracht werden. Es wird gezeigt, wie und mit welchen Begründungen das Spiel einen eigenständigen Platz in der experimentellen psychologischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung hat oder haben könnte. Inhaltlich geht es insbesondere um Fragestellungen, die sich auf die Interaktion und Kommunikation zwischen Menschen beziehen. Es werden zwei Beispiele aus der eigenen Forschung vorgestellt.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Global equity versus public interest? The case of climate change policy in Germany</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49603</link>
      <description>Title: Global equity versus public interest? The case of climate change policy in Germany
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Weidner, Helmut
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The paper attempts to shed some light on the kind of role equity norms play in German sustainable development policy and the related discourse, focusing on the issue of global climate change. Especially the tensions between the public discussion of equity among and within nations are investigated. Attitudes and commitments of the general public and the main actor groups towards global climate change policies and related equity issues are analyzed. One of the central findings of the analysis is that the norm of global fairness enjoys broad (rhetorical) support by all actor groups and the public. However, the support by the public must be characterized as uninformed consent because the effects of the various global climate policies within Germany are either not discussed or played down by the proponents of a progressive climate change policy. The debates are framed by two different but overlapping discourses informed by the concepts of sustainable development or ecological modernization. While with respect to global climate change policy the sustainable development discourse dominates at the programmatic level (concerned with norms, values and fairness principles), it is clearly the concept of ecological modernization that underlies the concrete policies.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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