Preferred Citation: Gastil, John. By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c2000 2000. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt596nc7dp/


 


Contents

  Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Exit and Public Voice in Representative Democracy 10
3 Why Elections Fail to Ensure Accountability 32
4 Appraising Radical and Conventional Electoral Reforms 68
5 Public Expression in American Politics 90
6 Glimpses of the Deliberative Public 112
7 The Citizen Panels Proposal 137
8 The Political Impact of Citizen Panels 164
9 Electoral Experimentation 187
  Notes 197
  References 239
  Index 259

 

Preferred Citation: Gastil, John. By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c2000 2000. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt596nc7dp/