The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

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THE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS’ PARLIAMENT AND THE FUTURE OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY edited by cheryl glenn and j. michael hogan the pennsylvania state university Editorial Board: Robert Asen (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Debra Hawhee (The Pennsylvania State University) Peter Levine (Tufts University) Steven J. Mailloux (University of California, Irvine) Krista Ratcliffe (Marquette University) Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder) Kirt Wilson (The Pennsylvania State University) David Zarefsky (Northwestern University) Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation is a series of groundbreaking monographs and edited volumes focusing on the character and quality of public discourse in American politics and culture. It is sponsored by the Center for Democratic Deliberation, an interdisciplinary center for research, teaching, and outreach on issues of rhetoric, civic engagement, and public deliberation. A complete list of books in this series is located in the back of this volume. RD D RHETORICANDDEMOCRATICDELIBERATION THE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS’ PARLIAMENT AND THE FUTURE OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY The Pennsylvania State University Press | University Park, Pennsylvania Edited by lyn carson john gastil janette hartz-karp ron lubensky Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the future of deliberative democracy / edited by Lyn Carson . . . [et al.]. p. cm. — (Rhetoric and democratic deliberation) Summary: “A collection of essays examining the Australian Citizens’ Parliament, a project in deliberative democracy held in 2009. Explores its organization, the deliberation, the flow of beliefs and ideas, facilitator and organizer effects, and its impacts from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives”—Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-271-06012-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Political participation—Australia. 2. Deliberative democracy—Australia. 3. Australian Citizens’ Parliament (2009 : Canberra, A.C.T.). I. Carson, Lyn, 1949– . JQ4081.A88 2013 323'.0420994—dc23 2013005063 Copyright © 2013 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992. This book is printed on paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste. ...