Download or read book Deliberation, Participation and Democracy written by Shawn W. Rosenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. This volume brings together the first work of this kind by leading scholars in the US and Europe to consider the issue. Four of the leading philosophers of deliberative democracy contribute their commentaries on the groundbreaking empirical research.