Subscribers to this list may be interested to learn that MIT Press has just published, “Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication” edited by myself and Peter Shane. The book is a collaborative project of 19 researchers investigating the experience and potential of online consultation in the United States and Europe. Here's the Table of Contents: 1 Online Consultation and Political Communication in the Age of Obama: An Introduction Peter M. Shane 2 Democracy, Distance, and Reach: The New Media Landscape Stephen Coleman and Vincent Price 3 Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance Andrew Chadwick 4 Online Consultations in Local Government: What Works, When, and Why? Joachim Åström and Åke Grönlund 5 Neighborhood Information Systems as Intermediaries in Democratic Communities Steven J. Balla and Sungsoo Hwang 6 Playing Politics: The Experience of E-Participation Vincent Price 7 The Participatory Journey in Online Consultations Scott Wright 8 Democratic Consultation and the E-Citizen Stephen Coleman, Rachel Gibson, and Agnes I. Schneeberger 9 The Technological Dimension of Deliberation: A Comparison between Online- and Off-Line Participation Laurence Monnoyer-Smith 10 The Third Sector as E-Democratic Intermediaries Scott Wright and Stephen Coleman 11 A Survey of Federal Agency Rulemakers’ Attitudes about E-Rulemaking Jeffrey S. Lubbers 12 The Internet and the Madisonian Cycle: Possibilities and Prospects for Consultative Representation David Lazer, Michael Neblo, and Kevin Esterling 13 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Consultation Regarding Administrative Actionfor Executive-Branch Actions: The United States Peter L. Strauss 14 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Consultation Regarding Administrative Action for Executive-Branch Actions: The European Union Polona Pičman Štefančič 15 The Legal Environment for Electronic Democracy Peter M. Shane and Polona Pičman Štefančič 16 E-Democracy, Transnational Organizations, and the Challenge of New Techno-Iintermediation Oren Perez 17 Making the E-Citizen: A Socio-Technical Approach to Democracy Stephen Coleman Regards, Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds <http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521817523>