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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