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 …

Over the past two decades we have heard an historically unprecedented volume of talk
about and praise of democracy, and many governmental, non-governmental, and …

Can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political
decision making process? At a time when there is growing disillusionment with the …

Experiments are essential to the practice of democratic deliberation, which itself is an
experimental remedy to the problem of self-governance. This field, however, is constrained …

Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place.
Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Columbia, the Netherlands …

Democracy asks its citizens to make informed judgments about collective matters. Given the
scale and complexity of modern polities, however, even the most attentive citizens cannot …

Democracies have a problem with expertise. Expert knowledge both mediates and facilitates
public apprehension of problems, yet it also threatens to exclude the public from …

A mini-public is an unusual institution: one that creates a space within which a diverse body
of citizens who would not otherwise interact is selected randomly to reason together about …

Demo cratic theorists commonly distinguish between direct democracy and representative
democracy. In a direct democracy, citizens rule themselves, while in a representative …

Contemporary democratic theory and, in particular, work on deliberative democracy, is
notable for the degree to which it has taken both an 'institutional'and 'institutionalised'turn …