The integration of digital technologies at institutions of higher education are profoundly
influencing formal learning on a global scale. Social-constructivist models of fully online …

Democracy asks its citizens to make informed judgments about collective matters. Given the
scale and complexity of modern polities, however, even the most attentive citizens cannot …

Deliberative democracy is now a flourishing field. Deliberative democratic thinking
characterizes ever more areas of theory and empirical study. Practical democratic …

The theory of deliberative democracy is here furthered in terms of three images that locate its
essence in respectively a single forum, a deliberative system, and an encompassing polity …

This article introduces and develops the concept of 'communicative plenty'to capture the
implications of the increasing volume of communication, both online and face-to-face, in …

This paper tests the possibility of embedding the benefits of minipublic deliberation within a
wider voting public. We test whether a statement such as those derived from a Citizens' …

This article defends four claims. The first is that in the last few decades, two waves of
democratic innovation based on random selection must be differentiated by their partly …

Innovative forums that integrate citizen deliberation into policy making are revitalizing
democracy in many places around the world. Yet controversy abounds over whether these …

This article examines the subjective experience of cognitive and behavioural change
following public deliberation in two different nations. It examines short-and long-term survey …

The state of Oregon established the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR) to improve the quality of
public deliberation during direct elections. To better understand how a deliberative “mini …