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The deliberative democracy handbook : strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century / editors, John Gastil, Peter Levine.

1st ed.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2005.

xxviii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike. It combines rich case material from many cities and types of institutional settings with careful reflection on core principles. It generates hope for a renewed democracy, tempered with critical scholarship and political realism. Most important, this handbook opens a spacious window on the innovativeness of citizens in the U.S. (and around the world) and shows how the varied practices of deliberative democracy are part of a larger civic renewal movement.

Political participation -- United States.

Political culture -- United States.

Deliberative democracy -- United States.

Gastil, John.

Levine, Peter, 1967-

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A nation that (sometimes) likes to talk : a brief history of public deliberation in the United States / John Gastil, William M. Keith -- What can we learn from the practice of deliberative democracy? / Mark Button, Daivd Michael Ryfe -- National issues forums : a network of communities promoting public deliberation / Keith Melville, Taylor L. Willingham, John R. Dedrick -- Electoral deliberation and public journalism / Michelle Charles, Harris Sokoloff, Chris Satullo -- Deliberative polling : from experiment to community resource / James Fishkin, Cynthia Farrar -- Consensus conferences and planning cells : lay citizen deliberations / Carolyn M. Hendricks -- Citizens juries : creating a trustworthy voice of the people / Ned Crosby, Doug Nethercut -- Adapting and combining deliberative designs : juries, polls, and forums / Lyn Carson, Janette Hartz-Karp -- Bringing the public and the government together through on-line dialogues / Patricia A. Bonner [and others] -- A town meeting for the twenty-first century / Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, Joe Goldman, Steve Brigham -- Collaborative learning and the public's stewardship of its forests / Antony S. Cheng, Janet D. Fiero -- Participation and public policies in Brazil / Vera Schattan P. Coelho, Barbara Pozzoni, Mariana Cifuentes Montoya -- Deliberative city planning on the Philadelphia waterfront / Harris Sokoloff, Harris M. Steinberg, Steven N. Pyser -- Study circles : local deliberation as the cornerstone of deliberative democracy / Patrick L. Scully, Martha L. McCoy -- e-thePeople.org : large-scale, ongoing deliberation / G. Michael Weiksner -- Learning democracy centers : where the public works / Carole J. Schwinn, John T. Kesler, David R. Schwinn -- Disagreement and consensus : the importance of dynamic updating in public deliberation / Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jane Mansbridge -- Growing governance deliberatively : lessons and inspiration from Hampton, Virginia / William R. Potapchuk, Cindy Carlson, Joan Kennedy -- Future directions for public deliberation / Peter Levine, Archon Fung, John Gastil.

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