Multi-Party Dispute Resolution, Democracy and Decision-Making

Contents: Introduction; Part I Foundational Issues in Multi-Party Dispute Resolution: How is It Different?: Strategic barriers to dispute resolution: a comparison of bilateral and multilateral negotiations, Robert Mnookin; What we have learned about teaching multiparty negotiation, Lawrence Susskind, Robert Mnookin, Lukasz Rozdeiczer and Boyd Fuller; Sequencing to build coalitions: with whom should I talk first?, James K. Sebenius; Deliberative trouble? Why groups go to extremes, Cass R. Sunstein; Strategic uses of argument, Jon Elster. Part II Practice: Complex Dispute Processes and Decision-Making in Action: Multiparty negotiations, Leigh L. Thompson; Norms of deliberation: an inductive study, Jane Mansbridge, Janette Hartz-Karp, Matthew Amengual and John Gastil; Voting, Howard Raiffa; Proceeding to a constitution: a multi-party negotiation analysis of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Dana Lansky; Mediating the war of olives and pines: consensus-based land-use planning in a multicultural setting, Hephzibah Levine; What is consensus?, Lawrence E. Susskind and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; On the ethics of planning: what profiles of planners can teach us about practical judgment and moral improvisation, John Forester. Part III Deliberative Democracy and Consensus-Building Processes: The lawyer's role(s) in deliberative democracy, Carrie Menkel-Meadow; Mediating public disputes: obstacles and possibilities, Lawrence Susskind and Connie Ozawa; Managing meetings to build consensus, David A. Straus. Part IV Evaluations of Multi-Party Decision-Making and Deliberative Democracy: Implementing consensus-based agreements, William R. Potapchuck and Jarle Crocker; Regulatory negotiation and the legitimacy benefit, Jody Freeman and Laura I. Langbein; Scaling up deliberative democracy as dispute resolution in health care reform: a work in progress, Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Part V Coda: Coda; Name index.