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  1. Climate assemblies and the public: An analysis of UK cases

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, October 2025, Elsevier

    Stephen Elstub

  2. Analysing the Global Assembly’s influence: The challenges of linking to the deliberative system of global climate governance

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, September 2025, Elsevier

    Stephen Elstub

  3. Mini-publics and policy impact analysis: filtration in the citizens’ assembly on social care

    Article • Policy Sciences, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Elstub

  4. Democratic Innovation in the Scottish Parliament: An Evaluation of Committee Mini-Publics

    Article • Scottish Affairs, November 2021, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  5. The Scope of Climate Assemblies: Lessons from the Climate Assembly UK

    Article • Sustainability, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Stephen Elstub

  6. The Importance of Context and the Effect of Information and Deliberation on Opinion Change Regarding Environmental Issues in Citizens’ Juries

    Article • Sustainability, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Stephen Elstub

  7. The Resilience of Pandemic Digital Deliberation: An Analysis of Online Synchronous Forums

    Article • Javnost - The Public, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  8. Engagement and Participation

    Article • June 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  9. Coronavirus and Representative Democracy

    Article • Representation, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  10. Why the public need a say in how patient data are Used for Covid-19 Responses

    Article • International Journal for Population Data Science, June 2020, Swansea University

    Stephen Elstub

  11. Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice

    Article • December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  12. The fourth generation of deliberative democracy

    Article • December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  13. Defining and typologising democratic innovations

    Article • December 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Stephen Elstub

  14. Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance

    Article • December 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Stephen Elstub

  15. Introduction to the Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance: the field of democratic innovation

    Article • December 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Stephen Elstub

  16. Deliberation in televised election debates in Europe

    Article • West European Politics, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ine Goovaerts, Stephen Elstub

  17. Between Diversity, Representation and ‘Best Evidence’: Rethinking Select Committee Evidence-Gathering Practices

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, September 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Stephen Elstub

  18. Editors’ Introduction

    Article • Representation, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  19. A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy

    Article • Democratic Theory, January 2015, Berghahn Journals

    Stephen Elstub

  20. Democracy in Theory and Practice

    Article • September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  21. Governing modern societies: Towards participatory governance

    Article • Acta Politica, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Elstub

  22. DEMOCRACY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

    Article • Representation, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  23. The Third Generation of Deliberative Democracy

    Article • Political Studies Review, June 2010, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Elstub

  24. Participation

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Elstub

  25. Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  26. Introduction

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  27. Democratising Secondary Associations

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  28. Avoiding the Mischief of Factionalism

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  29. Conclusion

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  30. A Dualist Model of Deliberative and Associational Democracy

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  31. Cultivating Autonomy: The Normative Core of Democracy

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  32. Deliberative Democracy and Autonomous Decision-Making

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  33. Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy through Secondary Associations

    Article • April 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Stephen Elstub

  34. Overcoming Complexity: Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy through Secondary Associations

    Article • The Good Society, January 2007, Project Muse

    Stephen Elstub

  35. A double-edged sword: the increasing diversity of deliberative democracy

    Article • Contemporary Politics, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Elstub

  36. Mini-publics and Deliberative Constitutionalism

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Stephen Elstub