Min Reuchamps is a Professor of Political Science at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Chair of the COST Action 'Constitution-making and deliberative democracy' (2018-2022).

Yanina Welp is a Research fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), and Chair of the COST Action 'Constitution-making and deliberative democracy' (2022-2023).

Introduction: Does it matter if constitution-making is deliberative? Yanina Welp & Min Reuchamps

Chapter 1: The meanings of deliberation and citizen participation: representing the citizens in constitution-making processes Elena García-Guitián

Chapter 2:Citizen deliberation and constitutional change Paul Blokker & Volkan Gül

Chapter 3: From Deliberative Systems to Democracy Peter Stone

Chapter 4: Gender and deliberative constitution-making Claudia Heiss & Monika Mokre

Chapter 5: Ethnic Groups and Constitutional Deliberation: Understanding Participation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Romania Sergiu Gherghina, Jasmin Hasic & Sergiu Miscoiu

Chapter 6: 'Deliberating the Rights of the Child': The Inclusion of Children in Deliberative Democracy and Some Insights from Israel Daniella Zlotnik Raz & Shulamit Almog

Chapter 7: Inclusiveness and effectiveness of digital participatory experiments in constitutional reforms Raphael Kies, Alina Östling, Visvaldis Valtenbergs, Sébastien Théron, Stéphanie Wojcik & Norbert Kerstin

Chapter 8: Lessons from two island nations: Re-reading the Icelandic Deliberative Constitutional Process in light of the success of the Irish Constitutional Convention Eirikur Bergmann

Chapter 9: Deliberative constitution-making and local participatory processes in Poland and Hungary Agnieszka Kampka & Daniel Oross

Chapter 10: Can the decolonial be deliberative? Constitution-making and colonial contexts: Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands Jón Ólafsson

Chapter 11: Constitutional referendums and deliberation: Direct democratic integrity in Russia, Italy, and Turkey Norbert Kersting

Conclusion: Hopes and limits of deliberative and democratic constitution-making Yanina Welp