Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Charts -- 1. Democratic Aspirations -- Introduction -- From Athens To Athens -- Consulting The Public -- The Filter And The Mirror -- Reflecting The People As They Are -- Deliberative Versus Mass Democracy: An Early Skirmish -- Eight Methods Of Public Consultation -- 2. The Trilemma Of Democratic Reform -- How Am I Included? -- Deliberation -- Political Equality -- Participation -- Three Conflicting Options -- Mass Democracy -- Mobilized Deliberation -- Deliberative Microcosms -- Avoiding Tyranny Of The Majority -- 3. Competing Visions -- Four Democratic Theories -- Competitive Democracy -- Elite Deliberation -- Participatory Democracy -- Deliberative Democracy -- Deliberation Versus Aggregation? -- Scale And The Forms Of Democracy -- 4. Making Deliberative Democracy Practical -- Bringing The Public Sphere To Life: Four Questions -- How Inclusive? -- How Thoughtful? -- Avoiding Distortions: The Problem Of Domination -- Avoiding Distortions: Polarization And Groupthink -- To What Effect? -- Under What Conditions? -- 5. Making Deliberation Consequential -- A Case From China -- Representativeness -- Assessing The Poll With A Human Face: Thoughtfulness -- Domination? -- Movement To Extremes? -- To What Effect? -- Changes In Policy Attitudes -- Changes In Voting Intention -- Changes In Civic Capacities -- Changes In Collective Consistency -- Changes In The Public Dialogue -- Changes In Policy -- 6. Deliberating Under Difficult Conditions -- Pushing The Boundaries Of Public Consultation -- Divided Societies: Deliberating Across Difference -- Virtual Democracy -- The Problem Of A European-Wide Public Sphere -- Putting Europe In One Room -- Implementing Democratic Ideals -- Concluding Reflections: Democracy, Justice, And Other Trilemmas.

Appendix: Why We Need Only Four Democratic Theories -- Notes -- Index.