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<br> This profoundly important and highly readable book offers the most thorough examination yet of the impact of serving on a jury. Anyone who cares about how juries affect our democracy should read this book. --Valerie Hans, co-author of American Juries and Professor of Law, Cornell University<br> Most people think citizenship begins with voting and ends with taxes. But jury service is in truth more critical to and definitive of democracy. In their rich study of the place of the jury in democracy, Gastil and his colleagues offer powerful evidence showing how jury service can create social capital and transform citizens. Their study is a persuasive portrait of juries but an equally compelling celebration of democracy's possibilities--a welcome riposte to the political cynicism of a polarized America. --Benjamin R. Barber, author of Strong Democracy and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos<br> I have been waiting decades for a study like this. For the first time we have data on a large s

The results produced by Gastil and his colleagues will go a long way to increasing readers' appreciation of juries, and of social science itself. Jonathan Simon, Edinburgh Law Review

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John Gastil is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. E. Pierre Deess is Director of Institutional Research and Planning at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Philip J. Weiser is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Cindy Simmons is an attorney who teaches Mass Media Law and Negotiation at the University of Washington.

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