VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, 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