Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the Editors
About the Authors
Editorial Assistants

Part I: Overview
1. Introduction to Deliberative Civic Engagement
Tina Nabatchi
2. Mapping Deliberative Civic Engagement: Pictures From a (R)evolution
Matt Leighninger

Part II: Process and Design
3. Who Deliberates? Recruitment and Participation in Deliberative Civic Engagement
David Ryfe and Brittany Stalsburg
4. How People Communicate During Deliberative Events
Laura Black
5. Deliberative Inclusion in Multicultural Societies
Alice Siu and Dragan M. Stanisevski
6. Online Deliberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence
Todd Davies and Reid Chandler

Part III: Outcomes and Evaluation
7. Does Deliberation Make Better Citizens?
Heather Pincock
8. Deliberation's Contribution to Community Capacity-Building
Bo I. Kinney
9. Assessing the Policy Impacts of Deliberative Civic Engagement
Gregory Barrett, Miriam Wyman, and Vera Schattan P. Coehlo
10. Evaluating Deliberative Public Events and Projects
John Gastil, Katie Knobloch, and Meghan B. Kelly


Part III: Conclusion
11. Listening and Responding to Critics of Deliberative Civic Engagement
Loren Collingwood and Justin Reedy
12. Advancing the Theory and Practice of Deliberative Civic Engagement: A Secular Hymnal
Michael Weiksner, John Gastil, Tina Nabatchi, and Matt Leighninger

References

About the Author

Tina Nabatchi: Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

John Gastil is Professor of Communication and Political Science, The University of Washington; soon to leave U Washington and become Head of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State. Author of Jury and Democracy (Oxford, 2010).

G. Michael Weiksner: is CEO of SocialFeet.com and a trustee of e-thePeople.org.

Matt Leighninger: Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC), Senior Associate for Everyday Democracy