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

Featuring cases from India, China, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mongolia and Malaysia, the authors demonstrate and compare the differing uses of public

Why are democratic systems seemingly unable to deal with long-term issues such as climate change, environmental pollution, and budget deficits? Is democracy its

We are taught in civics class that the Constitution provides for three basic branches of government: executive, judicial, and legislative. While the President a

Deliberative democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book, a number of