The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement

As American politics becomes ever more dominated by powerful vested interests, positive change seems permanently stymied. Left out in the cold by the political

This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.

Studies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred villag

Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political s