Deliberative Democracy

Stephen Elstub is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of Scotland. Peter McLaverty is a Reader in Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University. He is author of The Politics of Empowerment? (Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1996) and editor of Public Participation and Innovations in Community Governance (Ashgate, 2002).

• Tables and Figures; Preface; Details of the Editors and the Contributors; Introduction: Issues and Cases in Deliberative Democracy, Stephen Elstub and Peter McLaverty; 1.Conflict and Deliberative Democracy, Georgina Blakeley; 2. Inequality and Deliberative Democracy, Peter McLaverty; 3. Expertise and Deliberative Democracy, Mark Brown; 4. Interest, Public Policy and Deliberation, Darren R. Halpin and Juraj Cintula; 5. Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy, Manlio Cinalli and Ian O’Flynn; 6. Citizen Competence and the Psychology of Deliberation, Shawn W. Rosenberg; 7. ‘Scaling Up’ Deliberation, André Bächtiger and Alda Wegmann; 8. Deliberative Democracy and Public Openness, Jürg Steiner; 9. The Public Sphere as a Site of Deliberation: An analysis of Problems of Inclusion, Maija Setälä; 10. Mini-publics: Issues and Cases, Stephen Elstub, Conclusion: The Future of Deliberative Democracy, Stephen Elstub and Peter McLaverty; References; Index.

This volume provides a comprehensive, structured and insightful discussion of the key issues and challenges facing deliberative democracy as it enters its third generation and is to be welcomed as a significant contribution to the literature in this field.