Mary F. (Molly) Scudder is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. She is the author of Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation (2020) and co-author of The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation (2023).Michael A. Neblo is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Political at Ohio State University, where he directs the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA). He is the author of Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice (2015) and co-author of Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy (2018).

• 1. Listening as Power in Political Communication 2. Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for the Importance of Listening in Democracy 3. Beyond Dichotomies: Empathy and Listening in Deliberative Democracy 4. The Evidentiary Basis for Political Listening: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Feeling Heard 5. Listening, Race, Partisanship, and Politics: How Socio-Demographics, Conversational Topics, and Dyadic Properties Affect Listening 6. Can the Communication Style of Social Media Videos Affect Listening Quality and Opinion Change? 7. An Open Mind or a Big Heart: Possible Routes to Reducing In-Group Bias 8. When Election Officials Speak, Do Voters Listen? Trust-Building Communications, Information Seeking, and Voter Confidence in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections 9.“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?” Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings 10. Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean Constitutional Reform