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This article explores the interface between public deliberation and interest politics. It empirically examines how and when actors with vested interests support and oppose processes of direct citizen deliberation, such as citizens' juries. An analysis of four cases finds that interest groups and activists respond to citizen deliberation in a variety of ways from cooperative engagement to disruptive disengagement. The research suggests that partisan actors are most likely to support citizens' forums when the ideational and political context offers instrumental reasons to go public. The article explores what this strategic approach to public deliberation implies for the practice and theory of deliberative democracy.

This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm. Without thoroughly addressing and altering the underlying issues causing discrimination against women in politics, a weak quota system will not immediately lead to increased women's participation in Bali. This paper argues that the leading factors contributing to low levels of Balinese women's participation include widespread money politics, the revitalisation of customary institutions and local identities through decentralisation, and the collective memory of the violent dissolution of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) in 1965-66. Adapted from the source document.

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Bande di anakh: Making of Peasant Political Self -- Chapter 2. Changing rural political sphere: Social Capital and public spaces -- Chapter 3. Party Politics and rural political engagements -- Chapter 4. State policy and rural development -- Chapter 5. New rural political economy: speculation, debt and financialization -- Chapter 6 Emerging forms of Rural distress -- Chapter 7. Contemporary rural-agrarian political mobilization -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- 1. The Sexual Citizen -- 2. Queering the Third Way: Sexuality and Citizenship in 'New Britain' -- 3. Civil Solidarity or Fragmented Identities: Sexuality and Citizenship in France -- 4. Grant-ing Rights: The Politics of Rights,Sexuality and Citizenship Before the European Court of Justice -- 5. Transnational Citizens: Mobility and Sexuality -- 6. 'We Want to Join Europe, not Sodom': Sexuality and European Union Accession in Romania -- Conclusions.

V. O. Key's Southern Politics in State and Nation continues to be a central text in political science, the single most important work in understanding the role of the South in American politics. This article returns to, replicates, and seeks to advance Key's analysis of southern politics in Congress, reanalyzing and extending his account of southern strategies and actions in the House of Representatives. Where Key's text was characterized by an episodic attention to issue substance, we focus directly on how southern representation varied across discrete issue areas. We generate temporally fine-grained issue-specific ideal points for members of Congress that allow us to determine how congressional preferences changed across time, generating a more refined portrait of the process by which southern Democratic members diverged from their northern counterparts. We also thicken and extend Key's account along regional and temporal dimensions, assessing how his findings change when we employ a legal-institutional definition of the South, and include the whole period from the beginning of the New Deal to the close of the Truman administration. The article concludes by detailing the significance of our finding to the study of American politics, particularly American political development.