Hans-Jrg Trenz is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.
"""By a scholar with the rare gift of creatively handling both theorizations of the public sphere and empirical investigations of future, current or historical developments in democracy studies, this very readable and enlightening work is a must-read for intellectually and politically curious readers."" Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen"