Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to ta

This book examines democratic innovations from around the world, drawing lessons for the future development of both democratic theory and practice.

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

"Reconstructs the experience of participatory urban governance in three impoverished communities in Montevideo, Uruguay. Offers an account of various experience

Featuring cases from India, China, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mongolia and Malaysia, the authors demonstrate and compare the differing uses of public