'Deliberative democracy'is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments.
This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of …

Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic
politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic …

Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and
continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of'directly …

Deliberative democracy is now a flourishing field. Deliberative democratic thinking
characterizes ever more areas of theory and empirical study. Practical democratic …

Our beliefs are inextricably shaped through communication with others. Furthermore, even
conversation we conduct in pairs may itself be taking place across a wider, connected social …

This paper tests the possibility of embedding the benefits of minipublic deliberation within a
wider voting public. We test whether a statement such as those derived from a Citizens' …

The following report presents findings from a sco** review of the literature and a series of
expert interviews carried out between April and December 2021. The purpose of both the …

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens
the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on …

Participatory innovations (PIs) have been introduced as one possible cure to democratic
malaises. Empirical research on these mechanisms for citizen participation has, however …

This paper examines the fundamental problem of testimony. Much of what we believe to
know we know in good part, or even entirely, through the testimony of others. The problem …