Deliberation, Voting, and Truth 
Claudia Landwehr
This article identifies two different strands of epistemic democracy, aggregative epistemic democracy and deliberative epistemic democracy, which have recently been combined. The idea behind this combination, that deliberation and aggregation may be substitutes for one another, is argued to be problematic. The Condorcet jury theorem‟s application to political decision-making, on which the idea of aggregative epistemic democracy is based, is questioned by addressing its three premises – independence of individual judg-ments, voter competence, and the idea that the point in majority rule is to track truth – from a deliberative perspective. It is argued that epistemic hopes should better concen-trate on the discursive processes preceding majority vote and that voting and deliberation complement rather than substitute for one another.
Nana Seidel, Steffen Mau, Roland Verwiebe
Vor dem Hintergrund der hohen Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland thematisiert dieser Beitrag die Migration von Deutschen mit mittleren Qualifikationen innerhalb des europäischen Migrationsraumes. Wir stützen uns dabei auf die Analyse von 40 problemzentrierten berufsbiografischen Interviews, die zwischen Oktober 2006 und April 2007 in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Niedersachsen und Schleswig-Holstein geführt wurden. Als zentralen Befund dieses Beitrags kann man die These formulieren, dass Wanderungen, zumindest für einen Teil unserer Untersuchungsgruppe, als eine Strategie der individuellen Bewältigung von Arbeitslosigkeit und damit als Handlungen zur Verbesserung der eigenen Lebenssituation gesehen werden können.
Determinants of Poverty in Pakistan
Asma Hyder, Maqsood Sadiq
This study comprises two parts. Based on per adult monthly household expenditure, it first divides the population of Pakistan into four categories: non-poor, vulnerable, poor, and extremely poor. The individuals’ demographics, household composition and residen-tial characteristics within each economic category are discussed. The second part of the paper aims to identify the characteristics and determinants of these four categories of po-verty status. A multinomial logit model is estimated for this purpose. The study is based on two nationwide surveys, the 2001/02 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey and the 2004/05 Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Statistics. The results of the study can be helpful for a fuller characteri-zation of poverty dynamics and for informing policy formulation to reduce poverty.