Introduction / Andre Santos Campos and José Gomes André -- I shall vote, thou shall not govern : a tale of political heresy / Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte -- Antipolitics as participation : paradox and challenge / Elena Alessiato -- Dialogic politics and the end of democracy / Vincent Jungkunz -- Why the epistemic justification of deliberative democracy fails / Christian Blum -- Participation in a deliberative system / Volkan Gül -- The challenge of slow-motion democracy : synthetic and progressive rationalization of mini-public deliberation / Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett -- Citizenship and political action : the dilemma between patriotism and cosmopolitanism / Bruno Serra -- Participative citizenship in a pluralistic democracy / Jonardon Ganeri.