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 …

This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and
deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more …

The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute
for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations …

Electoral democracies are struggling. Sintomer, in this instructive book, argues for
democratic innovations. One such innovation is using random selection to create citizen …

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 …

Among democratic innovations, deliberative mini-publics, that is panels of randomly
selected citizens tasked to make recommendations about public policies, have been …

Many deliberative democrats herald the potential of minipublics to help improve the quality
of democratic decision-making. Yet these democratic innovations present a paradox: how …

There is a tendency in public debate to downplay the significance of populism by attributing
its rise to the inadequacies of those who vote for populist leaders and parties. But this way of …

There are two important dimensions to the membership of mini-publics that are distinct from
the membership of conventional representative institutions: the selection mechanism …

The normative point of departure in this article is that mini-publics can “complement”
representative democracy only if they enhance inclusive processes of mutual justification …