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1. Civic Engagement and Recent Immigrant Communities
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... and Recent Immigrant Communities" is a planning guide to help leaders (including leaders who are themselves recent immigrants) set goals, agree on expectations, and decide what kinds of engagement will ...
2. Creating Spaces for Change
(Headlines/U.S. News)
... and deliberative democrats want to prioritize: going beyond mobilization techniques to more structural changes in the ways that communities make decisions and solve problems. The report can be downloaded ...
... issue for a short period of time – there are fewer instances where the new strategies have been ‘embedded’ into the way that governments and communities function. Empowered Participation describes several ...
4. Funding Local Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... civic engagement has grown and developed over the past decade. The strategies described in the guide—and the stories of how communities have used them to break policy deadlock, reduce tension and galvanize ...
5. Community Engagement and Economic Growth
(The Democracy Movement/General)
... conducted by Gallup for the Knight Foundation. The researchers surveyed people in the 26 communities served by the Knight Foundation, which range from big cities like Detroit and Miami to smaller places ...
6. "No Better Time" report released
(Headlines/U.S. News)
In July 2009, more than 250 campus and community leaders came together at the University of New Hampshire to talk about the “deliberative democracy” field, the tide of civic change on campuses and in communities, ...
7. DDC Staff
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
Matt Leighninger Executive Director Over the last thirteen years, Matt has worked with citizen involvement efforts in over 100 communities, in 40 states and two Canadian provinces; roughly 25,000 people ...
8. Conference on Online Deliberation
(Headlines/U.S. News)
... and civic action. Technology enhanced community action ranges from informal communities of practice to democratic governance of formal organizations to large social movements. Learn more...  ...
9. The Next Form of Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... and desperate for resources. In order to address persistent challenges like education, race relations, crime prevention, land use planning, and economic development, communities have been forced to find ...
10. The Change Handbook
(Resources/Member Contributions)
In 1999, the first edition of The Change Handbook provided a snapshot of a nascent field that broke barriers by engaging "whole systems" of people from organizations and communities in creating their own ...
by Christopher Kelley, Program Associate, the Kettering Foundation The Kettering Foundation long ago identified a disconnect between the 'public' and 'politics.' People in communities all ...
... of seventy communities, citizens gather each year in a public assembly to discuss their priorities for municipal investments in their community. These citizen gatherings in turn elect delegates from each ...
13. Boston Civic Summit
(The Democracy Movement/AmericaSpeaks)
... about the event was the simple fact that it was convened at all. Often people bemoan the state of civic engagement in our communities, but few actually mobilize around the issue as a critical problem. ...
14. DDC Resources
(Resources/Member Contributions)
Resources for Elected Officials Principles of Regional Stewardship A framework that brings together conversations about livable communities, collaborative ...
15. We Have A Different Dream Today
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
... of their constituents. This kind of public outreach had rarely been done before; most communities lacked venues for people of diverse backgrounds to talk to each other about race. By involving people ...
16. Resources
(Section)
... long ago identified a disconnect between the public and politics. People in communities all over the country felt estranged from their elected representatives, from ...
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Deliberative Democracy Handbook

The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is the first book to bring together the best practices and thinkin on deliberative citizen participation processes. Deliberative democracy is the nationwide movement to make citizen participation meaningful and effective. Learn more...

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Change Handbook

In a completely revised and updated second edition, lead authors Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady profile sixty-one change methods--up from eighteen in the first edition. Nineteen of these methods are explored in depth, with case studies, answers to frequently asked questions, and details on the roles and responsibilities of the people involved, conditions for success, and more. Learn more...

Journal of Public Deliberation
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The Next Form of Democracy

Beneath the national radar, the relationship between citizens and government is undergoing a dramatic shift. The stories of civic experiments in "The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same" by DDC Executive Director Matt Leighninger show us the realpolitik of deliberative democracy, and illustrate how the evolution of democracy is already reshaping politics. Learn more...

Democracy Helpline


Deliberative Democracy HelplineThe growth of democratic governance has been a grassroots phenomenon. The promise of the Democracy Helpline, a project of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and its Partners, is to enable a broader array of people to make use of these powerful democratic strategies and principles. Learn more...