ABSTRACT
Stefan Voigt's paper marks the starting point of a rather ambitious project. His aim is to assign the appropriate position to deliberation in Positive Constitutional Economics. After discussing the two strands of research he draws on, Normative Constitutional Economics as founded by Buchanan and Discourse Ethics as developed by Apel and Habermas, he then introduces deliberation into his own field of research in order to test empirical hypotheses on the causal relationship between popular participation in constitutional choice and the contents and success of the resulting constitution.
