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ILLUSTRATIONS I.1 Timeline of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament, the research program associated with it, and the larger Australian context 3 3.1 The invitation to the Australian Citizens’ Parliament 39 4.1 The interface for answering a question with discussion and key points 57 4.2 How the proposal appeared in the participant’s home page 57 7.1 Average observer ratings of the ACP 102 9.1 Speaking turn dispersion for ACP discussion tables on Days 1, 3, and 4, excluding facilitators 125 10.1 Schematic representation of factors 135 10.2 Average factor loadings for the four factors 138 10.3 Factor migrations between stage 1 and stage 4 139 11.1 Distribution of category dictionary matches at the ACP 153 11.2 Distribution of topic dictionary matches at the ACP plenary sessions 155 12.1 Links among the CPs seated together on Days 1–3 of the ACP 164 17.1 Percentage of respondents who felt “compelled to defend their views” 245 19.1 References to and explications of ACP recommendations in Australian print media 266 19.2 Types and diversity of sources in ACP articles in Australian print media 267 ...

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