The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
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The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

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The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

About this book

Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the Australian Citizens' Parliament (ACP), which took place in Canberra on February 6–8, 2009. The ACP addressed the question "How can the Australian political system be strengthened to serve us better?"

The ACP's Canberra assembly is the first large-scale, face-to-face deliberative project to be completely audio-recorded and transcribed, enabling an unprecedented level of qualitative and quantitative assessment of participants' actual spoken discourse. Each chapter reports on different research questions for different purposes to benefit different audiences. Combined, they exhibit how diverse modes of research focused on a single event can enhance both theoretical and practical knowledge about deliberative democracy.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Series Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction (Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Ron Lubensky)
  9. Notes to Introduction
  10. PART I: Deliberative Design and Innovation
  11. Chapter 1: Origins of the First Citizens’ Parliament (Lyn Carson and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis)
  12. Chapter 2: Putting Citizens in Charge: Comparing the Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Australia 2020 Summit (Janette Hartz-Karp and Lyn Carson)
  13. Notes to Chapter 2
  14. Chapter 3: Choose Me: The Challenges of National Random Selection (Ron Lubensky and Lyn Carson)
  15. Notes to Chapter 3
  16. Chapter 4: Grafting an Online Parliament onto a Face-to-Face Process (Brian Sullivan and Janette Hartz-Karp)
  17. Notes to Chapter 4
  18. PART II: Exploring Deliberation
  19. Chapter 5: Listening Carefully to the Citizens’ Parliament: A Narrative Account (Ron Lubensky)
  20. Notes to Chapter 5
  21. Chapter 6: Deliberative Design and Storytelling in the Australian Citizens’ Parliament (Laura W. Black and Ron Lubensky)
  22. Notes to Chapter 6
  23. Chapter 7: What Counts as Deliberation? Comparing Participant and Observer Ratings (John Gastil)
  24. Notes to Chapter 7
  25. Chapter 8: Hearing All Sides? Soliciting and Managing Different Viewpoints in Deliberation (Anna Wiederhold and John Gastil)
  26. Notes to Chapter 8
  27. Chapter 9: Sit Down and Speak Up: Stability and Change in Group Participation (Joseph A. Bonito, Renee A. Meyers, John Gastil, and Jennifer Ervin)
  28. Notes to Chapter 9
  29. PART III: The Flow of Beliefs and Ideas
  30. Chapter 10: Changing Orientations Toward Australian Democracy (Simon Niemeyer, Luisa Batalha, and John S. Dryzek)
  31. Notes to Chapter 10
  32. Chapter 11: Staying Focused: Tracing the fFow of Ideas from the Online Parliament to Canberra (John Gastil and John Wilkerson)
  33. Notes to Chapter 11
  34. Chapter 12: Evidence of Peer Influence in the Citizens’ Parliament (Luc Tucker and John Gastil)
  35. Notes to Chapter 12
  36. PART IV: Facilitation and Organizer Effects
  37. Chapter 13: The Unsung Heroes of a Deliberative Process: Reflections on the Role of Facilitators at the Citizens’ Parliament (Max Hardy and Kath Fisher, with Janette Hartz-Karp)
  38. Notes to Chapter 13
  39. Chapter 14: Are They Doing What They Are Supposed to Do?: Assessing the Facilitating Process of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament (Li Li, Fletcher Ziwoya, Laura W. Black, and Janette Hartz-Karp)
  40. Notes to Chapter 14
  41. Chapter 15: Supporting the Citizen Parliamentarians: Mobilizing Perspectives and Informing DiscussionI (an Marsh and Lyn Carson)
  42. Notes to Chapter 15
  43. Chapter 16: Investigation of (and Introspection on) Organizer Bias (Lyn Carson)
  44. Notes to Chapter 16
  45. PART V: Impacts and Reflections
  46. Chapter 17: Participant Accounts of Political Transformation (Katherine R. Knobloch and John Gastil)
  47. Notes to Chapter 17
  48. Chapter 18: Becoming Australian: Forging a National Identity Through Deliberation (Janette Hartz-Karp, Patrick Anderson, John Gastil, and Andrea Felicetti)
  49. Notes to Chapter 18
  50. Chapter 19: Mediated Meta-Deliberation: Making Sense of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament (Eike Mark Rinke, Katherine R. Knobloch, John Gastil, and Lyn Carson)
  51. Notes to Chapter 19
  52. Chapter 20: How NOT to Introduce Deliberative Democracy: The 2010 Sitizens’ Assembly on Climate Change Proposal (Lyn Carson)
  53. Notes to Chapter 20
  54. Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Citizens’ Parliament Experience (Janette Hartz-Karp, Lyn Carson, John Gastil, and Ron Lubensky)
  55. Notes to Conclusion
  56. List of Contributors
  57. Index
  58. Series Page
  59. COVER Back