Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

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Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
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Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Part I: Introduction
	1. Party Competition and Its Limits
	2. Deliberation and Reform
	Notes
Part II: Can the People Rule?
	1. Four Criteria for Popular Control
	2. Four Forms of Democracy
	3. Popular Control in Competitive Democracies
	4. Is There Democracy for “Realists”?
	5. Manipulation
	6. Elite Deliberation and Popular Control: Madison’s Filter
	7. Participatory Democracy and Democratic Control: From Town Meetings to Referenda
	8. Reflections on the Athenian Case
	Notes
Part III: Making Deliberation Practical
	1. Designing Deliberative Democracy
		Demographic Representativeness
		Attitudinal Representativeness
		Sample Size
		Arguments For and Against
		Knowledge Gain
		Opinion Change
		Avoiding Distortions
		Identifiable Reasons
	2. Deliberative Agenda-Setting: California in One Room
		What Happened?
			INSIDE THE DELIBERATIONS: A FIRST LOOK
		What’s Next? Inequality
		What’s Next? Polarization
		After What’s Next: Initiative Reform
		Agenda-Setting and the Initiative Process
		Toward an Agenda-Setting Institution
	3. Mongolia: Deliberative Participatory Budgeting
		Participatory Budgeting
		To What Effect?
		Who Participated?
		What Happened?
		An Environmental Focus
		Knowledge
		Inequality
		Polarization
		Efficacy and Mutual Respect
		Policy Impact and Institutionalization
	4. Applying Deliberative Democracy in Africa: Uganda’s First Deliberative Polls
		Critiques of Deliberative Democracy
		Applying Deliberative Polling in Uganda
		Policy Attitudes: Bududa
		Avoiding Distortions
		Conclusion
	5. Deliberating European-Wide?
		A European-Wide Public Sphere
		Europolis
		Inclusion: How Representative?
		Was It Dialogic?
		Was It Informative?
		Was It Distorted by Inequalities or Polarization?
		Deliberation and Voting
		Conclusion
	Notes
Part IV: Reimagining Democratic Possibilities
	1. Designs for Deliberation: Where and How?
		Replace or Supplement?
	2. It Works in Practice, But Does It Work in Theory?
		Domination by the More Advantaged
		Polarization
		Lack of Citizen Competence
		The Gap between Mini-Publics and the Broader Society
	3. From Thought Experiments to Real Experiments: Reflections on Rawls and Habermas
		Rawls
		Habermas
	4. Deliberative Democracy and Candidate Selection
	5. Texas: Connecting Public Deliberation to Policy Elites
	6. Connecting Deliberative Designs to Participatory Democracy
	7. Deliberating Before Ballot Propositions: Reflecting on the “Australian Republic”
	8. Japan: Deliberation for Hard Choices
	9. Deliberation Day
	10. Connecting Deliberative Democracy to ConstitutionalChange
	11. Speculating on New Institutions
	12. Mongolia Deliberates on Constitutional Change
		Sample and Recruitment
		Representativeness
		What the Public Concluded
		Proposed Amendment
	13. “Deliberative Authoritarianism”?
	14. “Deliberative Systems” and Popular Control
	15. Toward Collective Self-Rule
	Notes
Appendix
Index