Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and go

Laws have colonised most of the corners of political practice, and now substantially determine the process and even the product of democracy. Yet analysis of th

Deliberative democracy is an embattled political project. It is accused of political naiveté for it only talks about power without taking power. Others, meanwh

Parliament is central to the democratic claims of our system of governance. This book evaluates the role and performance of this centrepiece of Australian gover

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