ABSTRACT
This study had eight research questions (RQs) on deliberation in the IMO, all of which have been answered using the methodology explained in Chapter 1 . The questions were connected together through the two stages of this study where stage 1 was concerned with identifying the extent to which the IMO meets the conditions of a ‘common lifeworld’ and the ‘ideal speech situation’ and stage 2 was concerned with identifying the determinants of variation in the deliberative quality of the IMO meetings. Together, the eight RQs covered those two stages and were therefore able to fully cover the main research question of this study:
