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978-1-907301-32-2 • Hardback • July 2014 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
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Kimmo Grönlund is professor of political science at Åbo Akademi and director of the Social Science Research Institute (Samforsk). He is Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence, Democracy – A Citizen Perspective (D:CE). His main research interests are participatory democracy, deliberative democracy, political knowledge, political behaviour, public opinion and elections. His current research projects include: Deliberation Within and Across Enclaves (2011–2015), funded by the Academy of Finland, and Democracy: A Citizen Perspective (2006–2014), funded by Åbo Akademi Foundation.André Bächtiger is currently Research Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne's Institute of Political Science. His research focuses on the challenges of mapping and measuring deliberation as well as understanding the preconditions and outcomes of high-quality deliberation in the context of representative institutions and of mini-publics.Maija Setälä is Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku. She specialises in democratic theory, political trust, direct democracy and democratic innovation and has published a number of articles and books on these topics. Recently, Setälä has applied experimental methods in collaboration with a group of researchers organising field experiments on citizen deliberation.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Contributors ix
Foreword by John Dryzek xiii
Preface xv
Chapter One: Introduction 1
Kimmo Grönlund, André Bächtiger and Maija Setälä
Chapter Two: Defining Mini-Publics 9
Matthew Ryan and Graham Smith
Chapter Three: Deliberative Democracy in Context: Reflections on
Theory and Practice 27
James S. Fishkin
Chapter Four: What Would Dahl Say?: An Appraisal of the Democratic
Credentials of Deliberative Polls® and Other Mini-Publics 41
Ian O’Flynn and Gaurav Sood
Chapter Five: Normative Theory and Experimental Research in the
Study of Deliberative Mini-Publics 59
Maija Setälä and Kaisa Herne
Chapter Six: Facilitating Deliberation:
The Role of Impartial Intermediaries in Deliberative Mini-Publics 77
Claudia Landwehr
Chapter Seven: Online Deliberation: Theory and Practice in Virtual
Mini-Publics 93
Kim Strandberg and Kimmo Grönlund
Chapter Eight: ‘Gentlemanly Conversation’ or Vigorous Contestation?:
An Exploratory Analysis of Communication Modes in a Transnational
Deliberative Poll® (Europolis) 115
André Bächtiger and Marlène Gerber
Chapter Nine: Deliberative Democracy in Divided Belgium:
An Alternative for a Democracy on the Edge? 135
Didier Caluwaerts and Dimokritos Kavadias
Chapter Ten: Participant Bias and Success in Deliberative
Mini-Publics 157
Michael E. Morrell
Chapter Eleven: Scaling Up Deliberation to Mass Publics:
Harnessing Mini-Publics in a Deliberative System 177
Simon Niemeyer
Chapter Twelve: Deliberative Democracy and Framing Effects:
Why Frames are a Problem and How Deliberative Mini-Publics
Might Overcome Them 203
Aubin Calvert and Mark E. Warren
Chapter Thirteen: Towards a New Era of Deliberative Mini-Publics 225
André Bächtiger, Maija Setälä and Kimmo Grönlund
Index 247