Bringing together ten leading researchers in the field of deliberative democracy, this
important book examines the features of a Deliberative Mini-Public (DMP) and considers …

Designers of online deliberative platforms aim to counter the degrading quality of online
debates. Support technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing …

This symposium examines the challenges and opportunities of recent efforts at embedding
participatory governance. It draws together original research that engages theoretically and …

This article systematically reviews the literature on combining referendums and deliberative
processes. With referendums being criticized for various reasons, including their deliberative …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 While Ireland was once perceived as being characterised by
conservatism, Catholicism and cultural isolation, by the first decades of the twenty-first century …

Abstract Launched in 2019, the French Citizens' Convention for Climate (CCC) tasked 150
randomly chosen citizens with proposing fair and effective measures to fight climate change …

Does anxiety affect how public officials process policy information? It is often argued that the
increasing number of policy failures can be explained by a lack of policy learning by …

Drawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book
provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of online disinformation and its …

Deliberative mini-publics are increasingly used to try to tackle public discontent with the
functioning of democracy. However, the ability of mini-publics to increase perceptions of …

The upcoming vogue of climate assemblies and other forms of mini-publics are to give
citizens a central role in climate policy-making and to break the political impasse. Yet climate …