Acknowledgments
One The Discursive Turn: Citizens Talking Together
Part 1 Discursive Participation and Public Deliberation by Americans
Two How Much Deliberation?
Three Who Deliberates?
Four How Do Americans Deliberate?
Five The Civic and Political Impacts of Discursive Participation
Six A Case Study of Deliberation in Action: Americans Discuss Social Security
Part 2 Why Discursive Participation?
Seven Organizing Deliberation
Eight The Practice of Deliberation and the Hope for Democratic Renewal
Appendix Coding of Variables from Discursive Participation Survey of the General Public
Notes
References