ABSTRACT
This chapter present a tour d’horizon of various forms of deliberative polling and teledemocracy. It suggests that, while there has been a growth in and proliferation of various forms of citizen involvement through these forms of citizen empowerment, they are unlikely to challenge the current system of representative democracy. Yet, the experiments suggest that better and more legitimate policy-making can be conducted in these fora. Despite the denunciations of cynics, deliberative teledemocracy and various F2F (face-to-face) forms of deliberative democracy have played a small but important role in modern polyarchies.
