Adalbert Evers is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social Investment and Innovation (CSI) Heidelberg University, Germany and has previously held the position of Professor for Comparative Health and Social Policy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.

Johan von Essen is Professor in Worldview Research and Civil Society Studies at Center for Civil Society Research, Marie Cederschiöld University College, Sweden.

1. In Search of Intermediating Capacities - the Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutionalised Politics.- Part I Framing the Interplay.- 2. Institutional Transformations of the Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutional Politics.-3. Democratic Participation and Climate Politics: Notes on the Convention Citoyenne Pour Le Climat in France.-part II Intermediation - Lost and Found.-4. From a Good Beginning Towards a Dead End.-5. Struggling with Pillarised Clientelism: Civil Society and Institutional Politics in Poland.-part III Policy Arenas and Governance: Welfare, Health, Migration.-6. Mind the Gap Before the Bridge: On the Gaps and Barriers in Cross-sector Co-production With Vulnerable Citizens.-7. Health as a Public Concern: Revitalizing Civic Engagement in the German Health System Through Civic-minded Movements.-8. Enacting Voice Amongst Young Immigrants in a Precarious Legal Situation: Everyday Practices of Intermediation in a State-funded Civic Youth Project.- Part IV Intermediation - Tools and Challenges.-9. Giving Voice to Ordinary Citizens: Public Opinion Research as Intermediary Between People and Politics.-10. Disorganised Collective Citizens' Interest, Social Transformations and Technopopulism".-11. Intermediary Capacities of Elites in Swedish Civil Society.-12 Nonprofits' Organizational Practices and Their Contributions to Communities and Democracy.