CONTENTS Jennifer Girouard and Carmen Sirianni , Introduction Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung , Embedding Public Deliberation in Community Governance Anne Taufen Wessells , Ways of Knowing the Los Angeles River Watershed: Getting from Engaged Participation to Inclusive Deliberation Jason Corburn , Civic Innovation, Deliberation, and Health Impact Assessment: Democratic Planning and Civic Engagement in San Francisco Daniel Kreiss and Laura Meadows , Intramovement Agenda Setting: Nationalizing North Carolina's Fight to Defeat an Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment Lewis A. Friedland , Civic Communication in a Networked Society: Seattle's Emergent Ecology Caroline W. Lee , Accounting for Diversity in Collaborative Governance: An Institutional Approach to Empowerment Reforms Robert M. Fishman , Networks and Narratives in the Making of Civic Practice: Lessons from Iberia Thamy Pogrebinschi , Turning Participation into Representation: Innovative Policy Making for Minority Groups in Brazil Carmen Sirianni , Bringing the State Back in through Collaborative Governance: Emergent Mission and Practice at the US Environmental Protection Agency Jane Mansbridge , A Systemic Approach to Civic Action.