Cover -- Contents -- Introduction ([Stephen Coleman] [Anna Przybylska] [Yves Sintomer]) -- Section I. Innovative Deliberative Devices and the Public Sphere -- Chapter One. Connecting Micro- Deliberation to Electoral Decision Making: Institutionalizing the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review ([Katherine R. Knobloch] [John Gastil] [Tyrone Reitman]) -- Chapter Two. Informal Deliberation over a Highly Publicized Case in Weibo Space of China: Process, Influences and Quality (Fan Yang) -- Chapter Three. The Disenfranchised and E-Deliberation: Beyond Access (Zhang Weiyu) -- Chapter Four. The Demise of a Deliberative Dream? Challenging the Mission of Public Service Broadcasting in Europe (Kees Brants) -- Section II. The Deliberative Poll: Recent Implementations -- Chapter Five. Reviving Deliberative Democracy: Reflections on Recent Experiments (James Fishkin) -- Chapter Six. Long Lasting Effects of the First Deliberative Poll in Poland ([Anna Przybylska] [Alice Siu]) -- Chapter Seven. Temporary and Lasting Effects of a Deliberative Event: the Kaposvár Experience ([György Lengyel] [Borbála Göncz] [Éva Vépy-Schlemmer]) -- Chapter Eight. To What Extent Do Deliberative Polls Promote Discursive Rationality? Some Evidence from a Deliberative Poll on Reframing Regional Governments in the Prefecture of Kanagawa, Japan (Tatsuro Sakano) -- Section III. Deliberative Quality -- Chapter Nine. How to Measure the Quality of Deliberation? The Discourse Quality Index (DQI) as a Possible Tool ([André Bächtiger] [Jürg Steiner]) -- Chapter Ten. Information, Deliberation, and Direct Democracy: Evidence from the Swiss Expulsion Initiative ([Marco R. Steenbergen] [André Bächtiger] [Seraina Pedrini] [Thomas Gautschi]) -- Chapter Eleven. Group Processes in Deliberative Setting. Qualitative Analysis (Elżbieta Wesołowska).

Chapter Twelve. Assessing Deliberative Potential. Evaluative Dimensions of Discursive Interaction in Contemporary Democracy (Marcin Zgiep) -- Section IV. Deliberative Democracy: Reflexive Perspectives -- Chapter Thirteen. Under Construction: The Field of Online Deliberation Research ([Stephen Coleman] [Giles Moss]) -- Chapter Fourteen. Random Selection, Republican Self-government, and Deliberative Democracy (Yves Sintomer) -- Chapter Fifteen. Crisis and Innovation of Liberal Democracy: Can Deliberation Be Institutionalized? (Claus Offe) -- About the Authors.