The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Ron Lubensky part i: deliberative design and innovation 11 1 Origins of the First Citizens’ Parliament 13 Lyn Carson and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis 2 Putting Citizens in Charge: Comparing the Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Australia 2020 Summit 21 Janette Hartz-Karp and Lyn Carson 3 Choose Me: The Challenges of National Random Selection 35 Ron Lubensky and Lyn Carson 4 Grafting an Online Parliament onto a Face-to-Face Process 49 Brian Sullivan and Janette Hartz-Karp part ii: exploring deliberation 63 5 Listening Carefully to the Citizens’ Parliament: A Narrative Account 65 Ron Lubensky 6 Deliberative Design and Storytelling in the Australian Citizens’ Parliament 81 Laura W. Black and Ron Lubensky 7 What Counts as Deliberation? Comparing Participant and Observer Ratings 95 John Gastil 8 Hearing All Sides? Soliciting and Managing Different Viewpoints in Deliberation 108 Anna Wiederhold and John Gastil 9 Sit Down and Speak Up: Stability and Change in Group Participation 120 Joseph A. Bonito, Renee A. Meyers, John Gastil, and Jennifer Ervin VI contents part iii: the flow of beliefs and ideas 131 10 Changing Orientations Toward Australian Democracy 133 Simon Niemeyer, Luisa Batalha, and John S. Dryzek 11 Staying Focused: Tracing the Flow of Ideas from the Online Parliament to Canberra 146 John Gastil and John Wilkerson 12 Evidence of Peer Influence in the Citizens’ Parliament 161 Luc Tucker and John Gastil part iv: facilitation and organizer effects 175 13 The Unsung Heroes of a Deliberative Process: Reflections on the Role of Facilitators at the Citizens’ Parliament 177 Max Hardy and Kath Fisher, with Janette Hartz-Karp 14 Are They Doing What They Are Supposed to Do? Assessing the Facilitating Process of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament 190 Li Li, Fletcher Ziwoya, Laura W. Black, and Janette Hartz-Karp 15 Supporting the Citizen Parliamentarians: Mobilizing Perspectives and Informing Discussion 204 Ian Marsh and Lyn Carson 16 Investigation of (and Introspection on) Organizer Bias 218 Lyn Carson part v: impacts and reflections 233 17 Participant Accounts of Political Transformation 235 Katherine R. Knobloch and John Gastil 18 Becoming Australian: Forging a National Identity Through Deliberation 248 Janette Hartz-Karp, Patrick Anderson, John Gastil, and Andrea Felicetti 19 Mediated Meta-deliberation: Making Sense of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament 260 Eike Mark Rinke, Katherine R. Knobloch, John Gastil, and Lyn Carson 20 How Not to Introduce Deliberative Democracy: The 2010 Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change Proposal 284 Lyn Carson contents VII Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Citizens’ Parliament Experience 289 Janette Hartz-Karp, Lyn Carson, John Gastil, and Ron Lubensky List of Contributors 301 Index 307 ...