Selen A. Ercan is a Professor of Political Science and Director at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her research interests include theory and practice of deliberative democracy, identity politics and multiculturalism, and alternative forms of political participation. Selen's work has been published in International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Policy and Politics, and Social Movement Studies, amongst others. She is the author of Mending Democracy: Democratic Repair in Disconnected Times (with Hendriks and Boswell; OUP, 2020); and the editor of Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice (with Elstub and Mendonça; Routledge, 2019).

Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra and holds a PhD from the University of Westminster. His research interests include identity and inclusion in new participatory spaces, digital politics, and feminist and gender theory. Hans' work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Communication Theory, and Politics & Gender. He is Co-convener of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association in the UK.

Nicole Curato is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the author of Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (OUP, 2019) and the editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. Her work examines how democratic innovations can take root in the aftermath of tragedies, including disasters, conflict, and urban crime.

Ricardo F. Mendonça is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and a Research Fellow at the Brazilian National Institute for Digital Democracy. He is the coordinator of Margem - Research Group on Democracy and Justice. He holds a fellowship from CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and a fellowship from Fapemig (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais). His research focuses on the theory and practice of democracy, political communication, and contentious politics. His publications include Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice (with Elstub and Ercan; Routledge, 2019), Introduction to Democratic Theory (with Cunha; UFMG, 2018), Online Deliberation in Brazil (with Sampaio and Barros; UDUFBA, 2016).

• Foreword, Graham Smith


• 1: Deliberative Democracy: Key Approaches and Methods, Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, Ricardo F. Mendonça


• Part 1. Theorizing Deliberation


• 2: Methods of Theorizing, Simone Chambers


• 3: Formal Models, James Johnson


• 4: Grounded Normative Theory, Genevieve Fuji Johnson


• 5: Democratic Theorizing, Hans Asenbaum


• Part 2. Measuring Deliberation


• 6: Discourse Quality Index, Andre Bächtiger, Marlène Gerber and Eléonore Fournier-Tombs


• 7: Deliberative Reason Index, Simon Niemeyer and Francesco Veri


• 8: Listening Quality Index, Mary F. Scudder


• 9: Macro-level Assessment of Deliberative Quality, Dannica FleuSS


• 10: Online Deliberation Matrix, Raphaël Kies


• 11: Experimental Methods, Kimmo Grönlund and Kaisa Herne


• 12: Deliberative Field Experiments, Jon Kingzette and Michael Neblo


• 13: Scenario Experiments, Hannah Werner and Lala Muradova


• 14: Survey Methods, John Gastil


• 15: Social Network Analysis, Eduardo M. da Silva, Antonio Carlos A. Ribeiro and Silvio S. Higgins


• 16: Big Data Analysis, Núria Franco-Guillén, Sebastian de Laile and John Parkinson


• 17: Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Matt Ryan


• Part 3. Exploring Deliberation


• 18: Ethnography, Nicole Curato and Nicole Doerr


• 19: Rhetorical Criticism, John Rountree


• 20: Process Tracing, Jonathan Pickering


• 21: Q Methodology, Lucy J. Parry


• 22: Dramaturgical Analysis, Selen A. Ercan and Carolyn Hendriks


• 23: Narrative Analysis, John Boswell


• 24: Frame Analysis, Ricardo F. Mendonça and Paula G. Simões


• 25: Talk-based Analysis, Paromita Sanyal


• 26: Media Analysis, Rousiley C. M. Maia and Tariq Choucair


• 27: Mixed Methods, Oliver Escobar


• 28: Case Study Research, Stephen Elstub and Gianfranco Pomatto


• Part 4. Enacting Deliberation


• 29: Deliberative Policy Analysis, Hendrik Wagenaar


• 30: Action Research, Kiran Cunningham and Lillian Muyomba-Tamale


• 31: Community of Inquiry, Kei Nishiyama


• 32: Deliberative Camp, Donatella della Porta and Andrea Felicetti


• Part 5. Concluding Reflections


• 33: Mutual Need, Jane Mansbridge