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  1. Politics and Science as a Vocation: Can Academics Save us from Post-Truth Politics?
  2. When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency by Bernardo Zacka 
  3. Keeping expertise in its place: understanding arm's-length bodies as boundary organisations
  4. The elusive search for the public voice in health policy: the case for ‘systems thinking’
  5. Deliberative Bureaucracy: Reconciling Democracy’s Trade-off Between Inclusion and Economy
  6. Studying public deliberation after the systemic turn: the crucial role for interpretive research
  7. Why and how to compare deliberative systems
  8. Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems
  9. The performance of political narratives: How Australia and Britain’s ‘fat bombs’ fizzled out
  10. Who are we trying to impress?
  11. Toxic narratives in the deliberative system: how the ghost of Nanny stalks the obesity debate
  12. Embracing impressionism: revealing the brush strokes of interpretive research
  13. Julia Gillard's Citizens' Assembly Proposal for Australia: A Deliberative Democratic Analysis
  14. Why and how Narrative Matters in Deliberative Systems