Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and r

Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and r

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent

From small-scale experiments, deliberative mini-publics have recently taken a constitutional turn in Europe. Iceland and Ireland have turned to deliberative dem

Can participatory budgeting help make public services really work for the public? Incorporating a range of experiments in ten different countries, this book pro