Ellen Stewart is Research Fellow in the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. She holds a Chief Scientist Office Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate public protests and evidence use in hospital closure processes. She has previously worked at the University of St Andrews, UK, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

"Stewart's book is the first monograph to map such a diversity of different forms of participation around one system. ... an excellent illustration of the value of mapping a particular system, quickly uncovering both its diversity and exclusions. ... This monograph demonstrates the value of the recent turn to whole systems or institutional studies of public participation. Rich empirical accounts such as this one will be vital to further theorising and attempts to intervene in these broader systems." (Helen Pallett, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, May, 2016)

• 1. Introducing Citizen Participation in Health Systems 2. Scotland's NHS: Citizen Participation and Mutuality in Scottish Health Policy 3. Administering the System: Citizen Participation as Committee Work 4. Extending the System: Citizen Participation as Outreach 5. Electing the System: Citizen Participation as Representative Democracy 6. Fighting the System: Citizen Participation as Protest 7. Playing the System: Citizen Participation as Subversive Service Use 8. Conclusion: Publics, Participation and Health Systems