Introduction
Part I: Framing algorithmic democracy
Chapter 1. The democratic drift
Part II: Ethical and political challenges of Algorithmic Democracy
Chapter 2. The Second Age of Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 3. The virtual politician: on algorithm-based political decision-making
Chapter 4. Digital twins: on algorithm-based political participation
Chapter 5. Platformization: the dangers of the artificial public sphere
Chapter 6. Moral learning by algorithms: the possibility of developing morally intelligent technology
Chapter 7. The metaverse: building a digital hyper-economy
Part III: Against algorithmic democracy: scope and ethical-discursive perspectives for an expansion of deliberative democracy
Chapter 8. Artificial ethics: on the automation of morality
Chapter 9. Critique of algorithmic reason
Chapter 10: Dialogic digital ethics: from explicability to participation
Chapter 11: Civil society: an ethical framework for algorithmic democracy
Chapter 12. Institutional design for an embedded algorithmic democracy
Index.