Coordinating Editor:	Ted Becker, Auburn University
Associate Editors:	Lyn Carson, University of Sydney
	John Dryzek, Australian National University
	John Gastil, University of Washington
	Peter Levine, University of Maryland
	Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University
	Francesca Polletta, University of California, Irvine
Essay Editor:	Ethan Leib, University of California, Hastings School of Law
Contributing Editors:	Archon Fung, Harvard University
	Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
Webmaster:	Xiao Ma, Auburn University

Articles are published as soon as they are ready. The current volume is Volume 4 (2008).

Frontiers John Gastil and Laura W. Black, Public Deliberation as the Organizing Principle of Political Communication Research Advances Francesca Polletta, Just Talk: Public Deliberation After 9/11 Contributions Christoph Haug and Simon Teune, Identifying Deliberation in Social Movement Assemblies: Challenges of Comparative Participant Observation Marcia F. Grimes, The Civic Benefits of Imperfect Deliberation Essays Jason L. Pierce, Grant Neeley, and Jeffrey Budziak, Can Deliberative Democracy Work in Hierarchical Organizations? Majid Behrouzi, The Idea of Democracy and Its Distortions: From Socrates to Cornel West Peter B. Edwards, Richard Hindmarsh, Holly Mercer, Meghan Bond, and Angela Rowland, A Three-Stage Evaluation of a Deliberative Event on Climate Change and Transforming Energy Lyn Carson, Creating Democratic Surplus through Citizens' Assemblies Jakob Svensson, It's a Long Way from Helsingborg to Porto Alegre: A Case Study in Deliberative Democracy in Late Modernity Book Review Essays Richard C. Stanton, How Tom Selleck Can Use John Gastil’s New Book to Do the Sequel to “Running Mates” Conference Reports J. H. Snider, Crackpot or Genius? Canada Steps onto the World Stage as a Democratic Innovator Carol Hunsberger and Wendy Kenyon, Action planning to improve issues of effectiveness, representation and scale in public participation: A conference report Book Reviews J. H. Snider, Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly William R. Caspary, On Dewey, Habermas and Deliberative Democracy