Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - A constitutional deliberative democracy turn in Europe? By Jane Suiter and Min Reuchamps Chapter 2 - Participatory constitutional deliberation in wake of crisis: The case of Iceland By Eirikur Bergmann Chapter 3 - The Irish Constitutional Convention: A case of 'high legitimacy'? By Jane Suiter, David Farrell, Clodagh Harris and Eoin O'Malley Chapter 4 - The macro political uptake of the G1000 in Belgium By Vincent Jacquet, Jonathan Moskovic, Didier Caluwaerts and Min Reuchamps Chapter 5 - Constitutional deliberative democracy and democratic innovations By Brigitte Geissel and Sergiu Gherghina Chapter 6 - Towards more deliberation at the European level? Citizen dialogues and European Citizens' InitiativeBy Marie Dufrasne and Ludivine Damay Chapter 7 - Legitimacy without visibility? On the role of mini-publics in the democratic system By Stefan Rummens Chapter 8 - The legitimacies of constitutional deliberative democracy: From mini-publics to deliberation in the public sphere By Julien Talpin Chapter 9 - Designing mini-publics for constitutional deliberative democracyBy Kimmo Gronlund Chapter 10 - Ideas of constitutions and deliberative democracy: A conceptual conclusionBy John Parkinson

About the Author

Min Reuchamps is Professor of political science at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He graduated in political science from the Université de Liège (licence and PhD) and from Boston University (Master of Arts).

His teaching and research interests are federalism and multi-level governance, democracy and its different dimensions, as well as participatory and deliberative methods.

He has published over ten books and edited volumes and his work has appeared in international journals such as Acta Politica, Ethnopolitics, Government & Opposition Party Politics, Politics, Politique et Sociétés, Regional and Federal Studies, Res Publica, Territory, Politics, Governance and West European Politics.

He currently serves as the President of the French-speaking Belgian association for political science (ABSP).

Jane Suiter is the Director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism at Dublin City University. She is a senior lecturer at the School of Communications and her research interests focus on political participation, deliberation and the media. Jane is deputy research director of the Irish Constitutional Convention and founding member of We the Citizens. Jane has published widely and her work has appeared in journals such as Electoral Studies, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Parliamentary Affairs, International Political Science Review, Irish Political Studies and Politics.