André Bächtiger holds the Chair of Political Theory at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart since 2015. His research focuses on the challenges of mapping and measuring deliberation and political communication as well as understanding the preconditions and outcomes of high-quality deliberation in the contexts of both representative institutions and mini-publics. His research has been published by Cambridge University Press and in the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Political Philosophy, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, European Political Science Review, Political Studies, and Acta Politica.

John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Centenary Professor in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. He is a former head of the Departments of Political Science at the Universities of Oregon and Melbourne, and of the Social and Political Theory Program at Australian National University. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory and The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. His most recent OUP book is Climate-Challenged Society (with Richard Norgaard and David Schlosberg).

Jane Mansbridge is Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA. She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest, Feminism, Oppositional Consciousness, Deliberative Systems, and Negotiating Agreement in Politics. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Politics. Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

Mark E. Warren holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy at the University of British Columbia. He is especially interested in democratic innovations, civil society and democratic governance, and political corruption. Warren is author of Democracy and Association (Princeton University Press, 2001), editor of Democracy and Trust (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and co-editor of Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Warren's work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Political Theory. He is currently working with an international team on a project entitled Participedia ([...] ), which uses a web-based platform to collect data about democratic innovation and participatory governance around the world.

• Preface


• 1: Andre Bächtiger, John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren: Introduction


• Part I: Roots of the Deliberative Approach


• 2: Antonio Floridia: The Origins of the Deliberative Turn


• 3: Simone Chambers: The Philosophical Origins of Deliberative Ideals


• 4: Francesca Polletta and Beth Gardner: The Forms of Deliberative Communication


• 5: Jensen Sass: Deliberative Ideals Across Diverse Cultures


• 6: Martin Hébert: Indigenous Sphere of Deliberation


• Part II: Theory of Deliberative Democracy


• 7: David Estlund and Hélène Landemore: The Epistemic Value of Democratic Deliberation


• 8: Stephan Rummens: Deliberation and Justice


• 9: Edana Beauvais: Deliberation and Equality


• 10: Monique Deveaux: Deliberative Democracy and Multiculturalism


• 11: Mark Brown: Deliberation and Representation


• 12: Stephen Elstub: Deliberation and Participatory Democracy


• 13: Andrew March and Alicia Steinmetz: Religious Reasons in Public Deliberation


• 14: Gerry Mackie: Deliberation and Voting Entwined


• 15: Michael Morrell: Listening and Deliberation


• 16: Michael McKenzie: Deliberation and Long-Term Decisions: Representing Future Generations


• Part III: Deliberation within Political Systems: Forums, Publics, and Systems


• 17: Paul Quirk, William Bendix, and Andre Bächtiger: Institutional Deliberation


• 18: Graham Smith and Maija Setälä: Minipublics and Deliberative Democracy


• 19: James Fishkin: Deliberative Polling


• 20: Simon Niemeyer and Julia Jennstal: Scaling Up Deliberative Effects - Applying Lessons of Minipublics


• 21: Rousiley Maia: Deliberative Media


• 22: Kim Strandberg and Kimmo Grönlund: Online Deliberation


• 23: Pamela Johnston Conover and Patrick Miller: Taking Everyday Political Talk Seriously


• 24: Donatella della Porta and Nicole Doerr: Deliberation in Protests and Social Movements


• 25: Carolyn Hendriks and John Boswell: Governance Networks


• 26: John Ferejohn: Deliberation and Citizen Interests


• 27: John Parkinson: Deliberative Systems


• 28: Michael Neblo and Avery White: Politics in Translation: Communication Between Sites of the Deliberative System


• Part IV: Deliberative Approaches within Disciplines and Fields


• 29: Christian List: Democratic Deliberation and Social Choice: A Review


• 30: Nicole Curato and Jürg Steiner: Deliberative Democracy and Comparative Democratization Studies


• 31: John Gastil and Laura Black: Deliberation in Communication Studies


• 32: Thomas Risse: Arguing and Deliberation in International Relations


• 33: Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg: The Political Psychology of Deliberation


• 34: Thomas Leeper and Rune Slothuus: Deliberation and Framing


• 35: Erik Schneiderhan and Shamus Khan: Deliberation in Sociology


• 36: Frank Fischer and Piyapong Boossabong: Deliberative Policy Analysis


• 37: John Forester: Deliberative Planning Practices Without Smothering Invention: A Practical Aesthetic View


• 38: David Ponet and Ethan Leib: Deliberative Law


• 39: Hoi Kong and Ron Levy: Deliberative Constitutionalism


• 40: Alfred Moore: Deliberative Democracy and Science


• Methods


• 41: André Bächtiger: Preface to Studying Deliberation Empirically


• 42: David Esterling: Deliberation and Experimental Design


• 43: Mark Bevir and Quinlan Bowman: Qualitative Assessment of Deliberation


• Part V: Practical Applications


• 44: Janette Hartz-Karp, Lyn Carson, and Michael Briand: Deliberative Democracy as a Reform Movement


• 45: Lawrence Susskind, Jessica Gordon, and Yasmin Zaerpoor: Deliberative Democracy and Public Dispute Resolution


• 46: Daniel Naurin and Christine Reh: Deliberative Negotiation


• 47: Ian O'Flynn and Didier Caluwaerts: Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies


• 48: Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett: Deliberative Democracy and the Environment


• 49: Ryan Gunderson and Thomas Dietz: Deliberation and Catastrophic Risks


• Part VI: Deliberative Democracy Around the World


• 50: Beibei Tang, Tetsuki Tamura, and Baogang He: Deliberative Democracy in East Asia: Japan and China


• 51: Ramya Parthasarathy and Vijayendra Rao: Deliberative Democracy in India


• 52: Emmanuel Ani: Africa and Deliberative Politics


• 53: Thamy Pogrebinschi: Deliberative Democracy in Latin America


• 54: Erik Eriksen and John Erik Fossum: Deliberation Constrained: an Increasingly Segmented European Union


• 55: William Smith: Transnational and Global Deliberation


• Part VII: Reflections


• 56: Interview with Jürgen Habermas


• 57: Robert Goodin: If Deliberation Is Everything, Maybe It's Nothing


• 58: Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson: Reflections on Deliberative Democracy: When Theory Meets Practice