Part I
1. Understanding Participation as a Response to Democratic Deficits
2. Participatory Budgeting: How Do We Understand Exceptional Democracy?
3. From Exceptions to Cases of a Participatory Budgeting Phenomenon
Part II
4. Comparing Participation Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis
5. What Participatory Democrats Expect
Part III
6. Necessary Conditions for Democratic Reform
7. Success: How Citizen Control of Politics is Achieved
8. How Citizen Control of Politics is Negated, and the Puzzles that Remain
9. Conclusion: Democratic Innovations after the Beginning