Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Power in Deliberative Democracy -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why Deliberation and Power? -- Defining Deliberation -- Political Aspiration -- Reasoned Discussion -- What Counts as Reason-Giving? -- What Are the Components of Deliberation? -- Political Life -- Defining Power -- A Matter of Degree -- A Matter of Practice -- A Matter of Contestation -- Three Core Challenges for Deliberative Democracy -- Theoretical Challenge -- Empirical Challenge -- Political Challenge -- References -- Chapter 2: Norms -- Deliberation, Power, and Legitimacy -- Rejection of Coercive Power -- Agential View -- Structural View -- Epistemic View -- Promotion of Productive Power -- Too Powerless, Too Powerful: Critiques of Deliberative Theory -- Realpolitik -- Feminist and Cultural Critiques -- Navigating the Ambivalence: A Theory of Deliberative Power -- Brute Force -- Legitimate Coercive Power -- Ideal Deliberative Outcomes -- Illegitimate Deliberative Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Forums -- Deliberative Forums as Deliberative Democracy in Action -- How Mini-Publics Redistribute Power -- Inequalities of Voice -- Asymmetries in Information and Knowledge -- Inequalities in Formal Authority -- How Powerful Ought Mini-publics Be? -- Critical View -- Celebratory View -- Ambivalent View -- On Mini-Publics' Noumenal Power -- Commercialisation of Mini-Publics -- Ritualisation of Mini-Publics -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Systems -- The Systemic (Re)Turn -- Functionalist Definition -- Normative Reorientation -- Deliberative Systems from the Lens of Power -- Normative Recalibration -- Non-Deliberative Acts Should Confront the Comfortable -- A Subversive Deliberative System -- Empirical Instantiations of Power -- Will Formation and Decision-Making.

Mediated Opinion Formation -- A Political Project -- Deliberative Interventions -- Institutional Reform -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Deliberative Democracy in Dark Times -- Post-Truth: Deliberative Democracy with No Truths -- Similar but Not the Same -- Dangers for Deliberative Democracy -- Breaking Free -- Post-Truth by Indifference -- Post-Truth by Active Deception -- Populism: Deliberating with 'Deplorables' -- Mobilising Publics, Setting an Agenda -- Yielding to Democratic Procedure -- Listening and Pluralism in the Public Sphere -- Illustrative Example -- Illiberalism: The Need to Defend Everything -- Contesting the Human Rights Regime -- Rights Bearers as Interlocutors -- Spaces for Contestation -- A Democracy that Learns from Its Mistakes -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Problematic When Powerless, Problematic When Powerful -- Using Power to Fight Power -- Resisting the Hegemony of Deliberative Democracy -- Deliberative Dreams -- References -- Index.

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