Shaping abortion discourse : democracy and the public sphere in Germany and the United States
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Shaping abortion discourse : democracy and the public sphere in Germany and the United States
(Communication, society, and politics)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
- : pbk
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-337) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. Abortion is a critical battleground for debates over social values in both countries, but the constitutional premises on which arguments rest differ, as do the strategies that movements and parties adopt and the opportunities for influence that are open to them. By examining how these debates are conducted and by whom in light of the normative claims made by democratic theorists, the book also offers a means of judging how well either country lives up to the ideals of democratic debate in practice.
Table of Contents
- Tables and figures
- Foreword Friedhelm Neidhardt
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Two related stories
- 2. Historical context
- 3. Methods
- Part II. Major Outcomes: 4. The discursive opportunity structure
- 5. Standing
- 6. Framing
- Part III. Representing Different Constituencies: 7. Representing women's claims
- 8. Representing religious claims
- 9. Representing the tradition of the left
- Part IV. The Quality of Abortion Discourse: 10. Normative criteria for the public sphere
- 11. Measuring the quality of discourse
- 12. Metatalk
- 13. Lessons for democracy and the public sphere
- Methodological appendix
- References
- Index.
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