<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the given paper a discourse quality index (DQI) tool, rooted to criteria elaborated by Jurgen Habermas’s in his discourse ethics, will be modified and used to assess the deliberation level of the 1995 Georgian Parliament. The methodology will accurately represent important principles of deliberation. Due to its focus on observable behavior and its detailed coding instructions, a discourse quality index can be a reliable measurement of the quality of political debates. The DQI for a parliamentary debate in the example of the 1995 parliament of Georgia will be illustrated in the given article. The parliamentarian debates concerning the adoption of the 1995 constitution of Georgia, according to its importance, will be taken as the specific case to be analysed. In the framework of the research, scholars will study and analyse over 200 pages of stenographic recordings of the parliamentary debates connected to the mentioned topic. The DQI score will be evaluated based on the analyses of the stenographic records.</p></abstract>

In the given paper a discourse quality index (DQI) tool, rooted to criteria elaborated by Jurgen Habermas’s in his discourse ethics, will be modified and used to assess the deliberation level of the 1995 Georgian Parliament. The methodology will accurately represent important principles of deliberation. Due to its focus on observable behavior and its detailed coding instructions, a discourse quality index can be a reliable measurement of the quality of political debates. The DQI for a parliamentary debate in the example of the 1995 parliament of Georgia will be illustrated in the given article. The parliamentarian debates concerning the adoption of the 1995 constitution of Georgia, according to its importance, will be taken as the specific case to be analysed. In the framework of the research, scholars will study and analyse over 200 pages of stenographic recordings of the parliamentary debates connected to the mentioned topic. The DQI score will be evaluated based on the analyses of the stenographic records.

Deliberation level of constitutional debates in Georgian Parliament

Ph.D. candidate of Tbilisi State University and Assistant-researcher of

Institute of Political Sciences of Ilia State University

Assistant-researcher of Institute of Political Sciences of

Politics in Central Europe

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In the given paper a discourse quality index (DQI) tool, rooted to criteria elaborated by Jurgen Habermas’s in his discourse ethics, will be modified and used...

Deliberation level of constitutional debates in Georgian Parliament

Published Online: Mar 31, 2020

Page range: 309 - 325

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0014

Keywords
Deliberation, Discourse, Measurement, Parliamentary debate, Georgia, Constitution

© 2020 Vladimeri Napetvaridze et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Deliberation level of constitutional debates in Georgian Parliament

Published Online: Mar 31, 2020

Page range: 309 - 325

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0014

KeywordsDeliberation, Discourse, Measurement, Parliamentary debate, Georgia, Constitution

© 2020 Vladimeri Napetvaridze et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Deliberation, Discourse, Measurement, Parliamentary debate, Georgia, Constitution