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Liberal democracy around the world is in crisis; for many, deliberative democracy is the solution. But there are still gaps in the case for deliberative democracy that need to be resolved before it can be sufficiently developed to be put into practice. In this collection, leading democratic theorists and empiricists address 10 of these crucial issues. They outline the problems, survey the suggested solutions to them and find new ways to resolve the issues. Each chapter takes a key issue as its focus, looking at issues such as conflict, inequality, pluralism, participation and the public sphere.

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This volume provides a comprehensive, structured and insightful discussion of the key issues and challenges facing deliberative democracy as it enters its third generation and is to be welcomed as a significant contribution to the literature in this field. --Clodagh Harris, University College Cork ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs

"This volume provides a comprehensive, structured and insightful discussion of the key issues and challenges facing deliberative democracy as it enters its third generation and is to be welcomed as a significant contribution to the literature in this field.--Clodagh Harris, University College Cork ""ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs"" Deliberative democracy goes from strength to strength in the theory, practice, and analysis of politics. One sign of its success is the number of controversies that surround it. Deliberative Democracy: Issues and Cases is an excellent and essential guide to key contemporary controversies in the field engaged by some of its best scholars.--John Dryzek, Australian National University"

"This volume provides a comprehensive, structured and insightful discussion of the key issues and challenges facing deliberative democracy as it enters its third generation and is to be welcomed as a significant contribution to the literature in this field. --Clodagh Harris, University College Cork ""ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs """

Over a series of discrete yet well intertwined chapters, distinguished academics in the field outline and critically assess the issues and challenges that deliberative democracy faces in practice, some of them offering pragmatic solutions to overcome them ... This volume provides a comprehensive, structured and insightful discussion of the key issues and challenges facing deliberative democracy as it enters its third generation and is to be welcomed as a significant contribution to the literature in this field. --Clodagh Harris, University College Cork, ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs

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Stephen Elstub is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of Scotland. Peter McLaverty is Reader in Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University. He is author of The Politics of Empowerment? (Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1996) and editor of Public Participation and Innovations in Community Governance (Ashgate, 2002).

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