Stephen Elstub is a Lecturer in British Politics at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, United Kindgom. His main research interests are in public opinion, political communication, civil society and political participation, all viewed through the lens of deliberative democracy. 　Selen A. Ercan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Australia. She works in the area of deliberative democracy focusing particularly on the capacity of this approach in addressing irreconcilable value conflicts in contemporary polities. Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He works with democratic theory, critical theory, politics of recognition, social movements and political communication.

• 1. The fourth generation of deliberative democracy Stephen Elstub, Selen Ercan & Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça Section I: Deliberative Systems in Theory 2. The boundaries of a deliberative system: the case of disruptive protest William Smith 3. Mitigating systemic dangers: the role of connectivity inducers in a deliberative system Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça 4. Deliberative elitism? Distributed deliberation and the organization of epistemic inequality Alfred Moore 5. Reflections on the theory of deliberative systems John S. Dryzek Section II: Deliberative Systems in Practice 6. Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems John Boswell, Carolyn M. Hendriks & Selen A. Ercan 7. Brazilian Social Assistance Policy: an empirical test of the concept of deliberative systems Debora Rezende Almeida & Eleonora Schettini Cunha 8. Deliberative networks Andrew Knops 9. Reflections on how to empirically ground the deliberative system’s theory Leonardo Avritzer

Stephen Elstub is a Lecturer in British Politics at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, United Kindgom. His main research interests are in public opinion, political communication, civil society and political participation, all viewed through the lens of deliberative democracy. 　Selen A. Ercan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Australia. She works in the area of deliberative democracy focusing particularly on the capacity of this approach in addressing irreconcilable value conflicts in contemporary polities. Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He works with democratic theory, critical theory, politics of recognition, social movements and political communication.

• 1. The fourth generation of deliberative democracy Stephen Elstub, Selen Ercan & Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça Section I: Deliberative Systems in Theory 2. The boundaries of a deliberative system: the case of disruptive protest William Smith 3. Mitigating systemic dangers: the role of connectivity inducers in a deliberative system Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça 4. Deliberative elitism? Distributed deliberation and the organization of epistemic inequality Alfred Moore 5. Reflections on the theory of deliberative systems John S. Dryzek Section II: Deliberative Systems in Practice 6. Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems John Boswell, Carolyn M. Hendriks & Selen A. Ercan 7. Brazilian Social Assistance Policy: an empirical test of the concept of deliberative systems Debora Rezende Almeida & Eleonora Schettini Cunha 8. Deliberative networks Andrew Knops 9. Reflections on how to empirically ground the deliberative system’s theory Leonardo Avritzer

Stephen Elstub is a Lecturer in British Politics at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, United Kindgom. His main research interests are in public opinion, political communication, civil society and political participation, all viewed through the lens of deliberative democracy. 　Selen A. Ercan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Australia. She works in the area of deliberative democracy focusing particularly on the capacity of this approach in addressing irreconcilable value conflicts in contemporary polities. Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He works with democratic theory, critical theory, politics of recognition, social movements and political communication.

• 1. The fourth generation of deliberative democracy Stephen Elstub, Selen Ercan & Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça Section I: Deliberative Systems in Theory 2. The boundaries of a deliberative system: the case of disruptive protest William Smith 3. Mitigating systemic dangers: the role of connectivity inducers in a deliberative system Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça 4. Deliberative elitism? Distributed deliberation and the organization of epistemic inequality Alfred Moore 5. Reflections on the theory of deliberative systems John S. Dryzek Section II: Deliberative Systems in Practice 6. Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems John Boswell, Carolyn M. Hendriks & Selen A. Ercan 7. Brazilian Social Assistance Policy: an empirical test of the concept of deliberative systems Debora Rezende Almeida & Eleonora Schettini Cunha 8. Deliberative networks Andrew Knops 9. Reflections on how to empirically ground the deliberative system’s theory Leonardo Avritzer