There is no democracy without responsible deliberation. Deliberation is not just a respectful discussion without mutual recognition of
individual and institutional responsibilities. The book Responsible Deliberation Between Conversation and Consideration discusses the
theory of deliberative democracy including its philosophical foundations and their often faulty translations for empirical work. It analyses large-scale experiments involving citizens, elected representatives, civil society and experts in great new debates, participating in democratic innovation to face challenges such as the just ecological transition, the Green Deal or the future of Europe. The book responds to the forgotten problems of how we talk to and criticize each other. Deliberation and accountability call for different communicative
capacities, not only narration, but also interpretation and argumentation, as well as all the resources of rhetoric, invented to respond to
democratic complexity.
Bernard Reber is CNRS-affiliated Senior Researcher, member of the Political Research Center of Sciences Po, Paris.