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Warren U.S. $15; www.amacad.org; @americanacad Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences “The Prospects & Limits of Deliberative Democracy” Volume 146, Number 3; Summer 2017 James S. Fishkin & Jane Mansbridge, Guest Editors Phyllis S. Bendell, Managing Editor and Director of Publications Peter Walton, Assistant Editor Heather Mawhiney, Senior Editorial Assistant Committee on Studies and Publications John Mark Hansen and Jerrold Meinwald, Cochairs; Bonnie Bassler, Rosina Bierbaum, Marshall Carter, Gerald Early, Carol Gluck, Linda Greenhouse, John Hildebrand, Jerome Kagan, Philip Khoury, Arthur Kleinman, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Rose McDermott, Jonathan F. Fanton (ex of½cio), Don M. Randel (ex of½cio), Diane P. Wood (ex of½cio) Inside front cover: Pieter van der Borcht’s The Difficulty of Ruling over a Diverse Nation (1578), adapted to appear as The Difficulty of Deliberating in a Diverse Nation–Difficult, But Today Not Impossible. Contents 6 Introduction James S. Fishkin & Jane Mansbridge Engaging the Issue 14 Referendum vs. Institutionalized Deliberation: What Democratic Theorists Can Learn from the 2016 Brexit Decision Claus Offe 28 Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research Nicole Curato, John S. Dryzek, Selen A. Ercan, Carolyn M. Hendriks & Simon Niemeyer New Thinking 39 Political Deliberation & the Adversarial Principle Bernard Manin 51 Deliberative Democracy as Open, Not (Just) Representative Democracy Hélène Landemore Critics 64 Inequality is Always in the Room: Language & Power in Deliberative Democracy Arthur Lupia & Anne Norton 77 Collusion in Restraint of Democracy: Against Political Deliberation Ian Shapiro 85 Can Democracy be Deliberative & Participatory? The Democratic Case for Political Uses of Mini-Publics Cristina Lafont Responses 106 Deliberative Citizens, (Non)Deliberative Politicians: A Rejoinder André Bächtiger & Simon Beste 119 Deliberation & the Challenge of Inequality Alice Siu Applications 129 Deliberative Democracy in the Trenches Cass R. Sunstein 140 Applying Deliberative Democracy in Africa: Uganda’s First Deliberative Polls James S. Fishkin, Roy William Mayega, Lynn Atuyambe, Nathan Tumuhamye, Julius Ssentongo, Alice Siu & William Bazeyo 155 Authoritarian Deliberation in China Baogang He & Mark E. Warren Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Nineteenth-century depiction of a Roman mosaic labyrinth, now lost, found in Villa di Diomede, Pompeii Dædalus was founded in 1955 and established as a quarterly in 1958. The journal’s namesake was renowned in ancient Greece as an inventor, scientist, and unriddler of riddles. 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