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An understanding of the ways in which public deliberation can be extended to meet the needs of modern societies even in the face of increasing pluralism, inequa

This title describes a new method of consulting the public that has been tried successfully around the world. It combines the theory of democracy with actual pr

One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregative models of d

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. This volume brings together the first work of this kind by leading scholar