Everyday Political Talk with Strangers: the Missing Link in the Deliberative System

• In Event: Conflict and Consensus in Deliberation and Everyday Talk

Brief Overview

The paper examines a form of everyday political talk that has thus far received insufficient attention by research on ordinary citizens‘ role in the deliberative system: casual everyday conversations between people that do not know each other.

Authors

• Ruediger Schmitt-Beck, University of Mannheim

• Christian Schnaudt, University of Mannheim