{"product_id":"9783032320919","title":"Deliberation and Anti-Deliberation in the Western Balkans","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNew Perspectives on South-East Europe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eDeliberation and Anti-Deliberation in the Western Balkans\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIvor Sokolic | Denisa Kostovicova | Irena Fiket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ World \/ European\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis open access book examines deliberative and anti-deliberative practices and ideals and how they fare in post-conflict contexts marked by democratic backsliding. It compares how deliberation and anti-deliberation unfold to identify constructive and destructive discursive engagement's spaces, mechanisms, and features. The authors contend that there is as much to learn from how speakers enact good quality deliberation as there is from how they depart from it. These departures and their implications for deliberators and their polities have not been examined to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection is useful to scholars of deliberation and public communication with its novel comparative perspective on fulfilment and violation of deliberative standards, to civil society and policy-makers with its insights into how to improve deliberative culture, and to international peace-building and democracy-promotion organisations and activists with its pointers as to how to prop democratisation and halt democratic backsliding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvor Sokolić\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Hertfordshire and Visiting Fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDenisa Kostovicova\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of global politics at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIrena Fiket\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Research Fellow and Academic Coordinator of the Laboratory for Active Citizenship and Democratic Innovations at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLondon School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032320919\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"London School of Economics and Political Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50547333693580,"sku":"9783032320919","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032320919","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}