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... to organize, convene, facilitate, or fund dialogues, deliberations, meetings, or forums that take place face-to-face or online among groups of people in order to share experiences, learn about issues, ...
2. Deliberative Democracy Fact Sheet
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. DDC Workgroups: Knowledge-Building Online FedNet (federal officials) Democratic Governance   Help public ...
3. The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... Executive Committee, chaired by Carolyn Lukensmeyer, president of AmericaSpeaks. Matt Leighninger is the Consortium's Executive Director. Task groups (listed below) carry out strategic planning and activities ...
4. America Wants National Discussions
(The Democracy Movement/AmericaSpeaks)
... really interesting is that the 80% goes across ideological lines. 60% of Republicans were “strongly in favor” and 70% of Democrats were “strongly in favor.” Support was strong across demographic groups. ...
... from citizens’ groups over the last three decades, federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions, such as how best to clean up Superfund sites or manage ...
... recently participated in a Deliberative Poll sponsored by Threshold 2008, a coalition of civic groups in the county. The weekend sample of 238 participants considered competing policy options, became more ...
7. Taking Democracy to Scale: Trip Report
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... a technology-driven world. Group Jazz > Group Jazz in an organization that supports the work of groups, both face-to-face and online by bringing together the best tools, technologies, media, ...
8. Thrilling Show of People Power
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... Jersey and Connecticut, were broken down into groups of 10, seated at tables equipped with a computer. Their opinions - essentially votes - would be fed all day to a central computer base. Called to assembly ...
... role in policy making and tensions are arising between pluralist and deliberative democratic models of public participation. On the one hand, pluralists and neo-corporatists maintain that interest groups ...
... components. Once thought of as an exercise reserved for small groups with shared interests or small towns with a degree of social cohesion, deliberative democracy is being applied albeit unevenly to formal ...
11. Task Groups
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... movement. (See right sidebar.) Key initiatives of the Consortium are carried out through Task Groups. Existing task groups include: Knowledge Building. Identifies critical questions and collaborators ...
12. Projects
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
Much of the work of the DDC is accomplished by four Task Groups: Knowledge Building Online Deliberation FedNet Democratic Governance The DDC ...
13. Deliberative Democracy FAQ
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy General)
... levels around the world--from local goverment to multinational institutions like the World Bank. Working in groups as small as ten or twelve to larger groups of 3,000 ...
14. DDC Resources
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... Once thought of as an exercise reserved for small groups with shared interests or small towns with a degree of social cohesion, deliberative democracy is being applied ...
15. Task Groups
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16. Initiatives
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Much of the work of the DDC is accomplished by four Task Groups: Knowledge Building Federal Network Online Deliberation Democratic Governance The DDC is embarking ...
17. Resources
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... components. Once thought of as an exercise reserved for small groups with shared interests or small towns with a degree of social cohesion, deliberative democracy ...
18. Democracies Online
(News Feeds / Deliberation and Democracy News)
http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire/messages/posts.atom ...
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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...