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Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political s

Examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy.

Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and go

Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and