Growing into Politics

The 'crisis' of representative democracy has been conducive to a variety of innovations where citizens are directly involved in policy-making at different levels of government. One of the most innovative and promising venues for citizen involvement are deliberative mini-publics. Typically, they brin [...]
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The 'crisis' of representative democracy has been conducive to a variety of innovations where citizens are directly involved in policy-making at different levels of government. One of the most innovative and promising venues for citizen involvement are deliberative mini-publics. Typically, they bring together a diverse group of people for informed and structured discussion on matters of public importance. The proposed book takes stock of the wide range of practices of deliberative mini-publics. More concretely, it presents and evaluates their preconditions, processes, and outcomes. Furthermore, it provides a critical assessment of the experience with mini-publics, in particular, their lack of policy-impact. The book also makes suggestions of how mini-publics can be used to enhance the quality of democracy. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, most notably James S. Fishkin and Mark E. Warren, it speaks to students and scholars with an interest in democracy and democratic innovations.