In the context of participatory processes, facilitation is the craft of enabling collective work
through conversations that are inclusive, meaningful and productive (Escobar, 2011) …

Facilitation is indispensable to organized deliberative practices, yet largely absent from
deliberative theory. This article theorizes the role of the deliberative facilitator through the …

The contemporary emphasis on public participation in policy making derives both from
concerns to increase the legitimacy of public decision making and to develop more dialogic …

Activists, foundations, and even some scholars interested in improving the quality of the
public sphere have pursued an array of modest projects that attempt to create more perfect …

I contend that the popular 'mini-publics' approach to implementing deliberation in practice is
unable to realize deliberative democracy in a way that fulfills the deliberative democratic …

Deliberative democracy did not begin as a field of political thought with minipublics at the
core of its institutional dimension. Yet, for better or worse, minipublics have become a …

Democratic theorists often place deliberative innovations such as Citizen's Juries,
Consensus Conferences, Planning Cells, and Deliberative Polls at the centre of their hopes …

Among the growing literature on deliberative democracy there are two diverging streams of
thought, each implying a different role for civil society. Micro deliberative theorists, with their …

A deliberative approach now dominates the theory–though not yet the practice–of
democracy. In its quarter century of existence (its prehistory is much deeper), the field has …

Deliberative democracy can be understood in systemic terms as the contestation of
discourses (eg Stevenson and Dryzek 2012), but the mere fact of contestation does not …