Special Issue: Can European elections be deliberative? The 2009 Europolis deliberative poll

Contents of this Special Issue of the European Union Politics are:

+ The EuroPolis deliberative poll
Pierangelo Isernia and James S Fishkin

+ Europolis and the European public sphere: Empirical explorations of a counterfactual ideal
James S Fishkin, Robert C Luskin and Alice Siu

+ Deliberation, political knowledge and vote choice: Results from an experiment with second-order elections
Patrick Bernhagen and Hermann Schmitt

+ Does deliberation contribute to decreasing the gender gap in knowledge?
Marta Fraile

+ The role of deliberation in attitude change: An empirical assessment of three theoretical mechanisms
Kaat Smets and Pierangelo Isernia

+ Deliberative and non-deliberative persuasion: Mechanisms of opinion formation in EuroPolis
Marlène Gerber, André Bächtiger, Irena Fiket, Marco Steenbergen and Jürg Steiner