Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Public Participation Professional: An Invisible but Pivotal Actor in Participatory Processes -- Section I Specific Context -- 2 Innovating Public Participation: The Role of PPPs and Institutions in Italy -- 3 The Participatory Democracy Market in France: Between Standardization and Fragmentation -- 4 Public Participation Professionals in the US: Confronting Challenges of Equity and Empowerment -- 5 Who's the Client? The Sponsor, Citizens, or the Participatory Process?: Tensions in the Quebec (Canada) Public Participation Field -- 6 Expertise, Professionalization, and Reflexivity in Mediating Public Participation: Perspectives from STS and British Science and Democracy -- Section II Actors and Networks -- 7 Making It Official: Participation Professionals and the Challenge of Institutionalizing Deliberative Democracy -- 8 Negotiating Professional Boundaries: Learning from Collaboration between Academics and Deliberation Practitioners -- 9 Making Citizen Panels a "Universal Bestseller": Transnational Mobilization Practices of Public Participation Advocates -- 10 Learning to Facilitate: Implications for Skill Development in the Public Participation Field -- 11 Conclusion: Do the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Public Participation and the Enthusiasm for Participatory Processes Guarantee Greater Democratization? -- Contributors -- Index