• Acknowledgements


• About the Editors


• About the Authors


• Editorial Assistants


• Part I: Overview


• 1. Introduction to Deliberative Civic Engagement


• Tina Nabatchi


• 2. Mapping Deliberative Civic Engagement: Pictures From a (R)evolution


• Matt Leighninger


• Part II: Process and Design


• 3. Who Deliberates? Recruitment and Participation in Deliberative Civic Engagement


• David Ryfe and Brittany Stalsburg


• 4. How People Communicate During Deliberative Events


• Laura Black


• 5. Deliberative Inclusion in Multicultural Societies


• Alice Siu and Dragan M. Stanisevski


• 6. Online Deliberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence


• Todd Davies and Reid Chandler


• Part III: Outcomes and Evaluation


• 7. Does Deliberation Make Better Citizens?


• Heather Pincock


• 8. Deliberation's Contribution to Community Capacity-Building


• Bo I. Kinney


• 9. Assessing the Policy Impacts of Deliberative Civic Engagement


• Gregory Barrett, Miriam Wyman, and Vera Schattan P. Coehlo


• 10. Evaluating Deliberative Public Events and Projects


• John Gastil, Katie Knobloch, and Meghan B. Kelly


• Part III: Conclusion


• 11. Listening and Responding to Critics of Deliberative Civic Engagement


• Loren Collingwood and Justin Reedy


• 12. Advancing the Theory and Practice of Deliberative Civic Engagement: A Secular Hymnal


• Michael Weiksner, John Gastil, Tina Nabatchi, and Matt Leighninger


• References

Tina Nabatchi: Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
John Gastil is Professor of Communication and Political Science, The University of Washington; soon to leave U Washington and become Head of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State. Author of Jury and Democracy (Oxford, 2010).
Matt Leighninger: Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC), Senior Associate for Everyday Democracy
G. Michael Weiksner: is CEO of SocialFeet.com and a trustee of e-thePeople.org.

Democracy in Motion uses theory, research, and practice to comprehensively explore what we know, how we know it, and what remains to be understood about deliberative civic engagement. The book is useful to scholars, practitioners, public officials, activists, and citizens who seek to utilize deliberative civic engagement in their communities.