About the Book:Does the increasing usage of online political forums lead to a more deliberative democracy? This book presents the evolution of the public spaces in a historical perspective, by defining and operationalizing the deliberative criteria of democracy, and by measuring and evaluating the impact of virtualization of the political debates.Table of Contents: Deliberative Democracy: Origins, Meaning and Major Controversies Deliberative Democracy and its Operationalization Extension of the Online Political Debates Existing Findings on Deliberativeness of Web-Debates Analysis of ‘Radicali Italiani’ Online Campaign in Issy-Les-Moulineaux