1st Edition
Public Deliberation in the Digital Age Platforms, Participation, and Legitimacy
1. Introduction: Digital Platforms as a New Frontier for Deliberative Democracy
Emilien Paulis, Raphaël Kies, and Alina Östling
Part 1: Understanding the Platformization of Politics and (Deliberative) Democracy
2. Building a Typology of Digital Platforms’ Political Functions
Fabrizio Li Vigni and Stéphanie Wojcik
3. An Emerging Conceptual Model Comparing the Deliberative Nature of Online Deliberation Platforms
Martin King
Part 2: Enhancing Deliberative Processes through Digital Platforms
4. Harnessing Digital Tools for Democratic Deliberation: Comparative Insights from 11 European Climate Assemblies
Lisa Verhasselt and Emilien Paulis
5. Combining Online and Offline Participatory Processes for Local Policy Making: An Analysis of Three Cases in the Netherlands
Niek Mouter, Jelle Turkenburg, Julia Starrenburg, and Anna Mikhaylovskaya
6. At the Crossroads of Multilingual and Digital Deliberative Democracy: Perceived Effectiveness of Multilingual DMPs Across In-person and Online Settings
Lisa Verhasselt
7. Public Support for Online Citizens’ Assemblies: A Tale of the Digital Divide
Emilien Paulis
Part 3: Leveraging Deliberative Processes through Artificial Intelligence
8. Making Online Participation More Intelligent: Considerations on How Artificial Intelligence Can Support Public Online Participatory Processes
Daniel Friess and Carina Weinmann
9. Artificial Intelligence in Deliberative Democracy: Empirical Insights on the Legitimacy of AI-Supported Deliberation Platforms
Alina Östling, Visvaldis Valtenbergs and Velta Skolmeistere
Part 4: Expanding Horizons
10. The Deliberative Potential of E-petition Systems: A Cross-Country Overview
Nino Sharashidze
11. Audience Councils (ACs) and their Role in Public Service Media (PSM): Insights from Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom
Raphaël Kies and Stephanie Lukasik
12. Children’s Rights and Potential in Online Deliberation
Daniella Zlotnik Raz and Shulamit Almog
13. Party Elites and Digital Participation in Hungary: Forced to Ride the Wave
Istvan Miskolczy and Sergiu Gherghina
14. Conclusion: How Digital Democratic Reforms Can Forestall Deliberative Democracy's Decline and Fuel Its Renewal
John Gastil and Elisa Vogel
Biography
Emilien Paulis is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Raphaël Kies is a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg and founder of the Luxembourg Platform for Participatory Democracy (pldp.lu), Luxembourg.
Alina Östling is a senior researcher at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Sweden.
