Table of Contents

Chapter one: Preference and Decision Chapter two: Communicative Interaction and Preference-Formation Chapter three: Institutional Context and Modes of Interaction Chapter four: Case Study: The German Decision on the Importation of Embryonic Stem Cells Chapter five: Case Analysis: Forums, Modes of Interaction and Preference-Formation in the Stem-Cell Conflict Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

About the Author

Claudia Landwehr is a Schumpeter Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main. She has previously been a junior research fellow at the University of Hamburg and an academic visitor at the Australian National University and Harvard University. Her research focuses on theories of democracy and justice and, more recently, on the distribution of health care in international comparison. She has published on deliberative democracy, communicative interaction and health care rationing.