[Tps] New Book: Theory and Empirical Research on Deliberative Democracy

[Shawn Rosenberg]

Dear all,

Just to let you know of a new edited volume that includes theory and 
research on deliberative democracy and collaborative governance:

Deliberation, Participation and Democracy: CAN THE PEOPLE GOVERN?  Shawn 
Rosenberg (ed). London/NY: Palgrave MacMillan, December 2007.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1)     Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Research on 
Deliberative Democracy

(Shawn W. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine)

Part I - Empirical Studies of Democratic Deliberation

2)     Who Deliberates? Discursive Participation in America

(Fay Lomax Cook, Northwestern University; Michael Delli Carpini, University 
of

 Pennsylvania;  and Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota)

3)     The Democratic Potential of Civic Dialogue

(Kathy Cramer Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

4)     Deliberation and Agreement

(Christian List, London School of Economics)

5)     Deliberation in Legislatures

(Andre Bachtiger, Markus Sporndli, Marco Steenbergen and Jurg Steiner, 
University of Bern)

6)     How People Deliberate about Justice

(Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University and Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham 
Young

 University)

7)     Types of Discourse and the Democracy of Deliberation

(Shawn W. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine)

8)     Minipublics: Deliberative Designs and their Consequences

(Archon Fung, Harvard University)

9)     Deliberation with a Purpose: Reconnecting Communities and Schools

(Stephen Weatherford and Lorraine McDonnell, University of California, Santa 
Barbara)

Part II - Theoretical Reflections on the Empirical Research

10) Deliberative Democracy

(Joshua Cohen, Stanford University)

11) Theory, Evidence and the Tasks of Deliberation

(John Dryzek, Australian National University)

12) Deliberative Democracy or Democratic Deliberation

(Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University)

13) Institutionalizing Deliberative Democracy

(Mark Warren, University of British Columbia)



Hope this is of interest,
Shawn

Shawn W. Rosenberg
Director and Professor
Graduate Program in Political Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Faculty website:
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2469
Program websites:
http://www.polisci.uci.edu/POLPSYGROUP.htm
http://aris.ss.uci.edu/polpsych/polpsych.html