“Deliberative Disagreement” in U.S. Health Policy Committee Hearings

The exchange of rationales among debate participants is necessary for legitimacy in a deliberative democracy. I show that witnesses in congressional committee hearings tend to use falsifiable rationales when they encounter moderate levels of disagreement and shift to nonfalsifiable rationales when they encounter extreme disagreement. I use data from a coding of hearings testimony on the Medicare program, held between 1990 and 2003, as well as from a survey of participating witnesses measuring their perceptions of disagreement at the hearing. The results identify conditions that enhance falsifiable discourse and help to establish the empirical grounding deliberative democratic theory.     

Respiratory protection; correction--OSHA. Final rule; correction

OSHA is correcting errors in the regulatory text of the Respiratory Protection final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on January 8, 1998 (63 FR 1152).     

"Das sind meine Prinzipien. Ich habe auch andere."

Bei Rechtsgutachten von Universitätsangehörigen stellen sich - insbesondere hinsichtlich der Offenlegung von AuftraggeberInnen - wissenschaftsethische Fragen, die in Selbstregulierungsinstrumenten der akademischen Gemeinschaft adressiert werden sollten.