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1. Civic Engagement and Recent Immigrant Communities
(Resources/Member Contributions)
The DDC has worked with the National League of Cities (NLC) to develop a guide for public officials and other local leaders about developing strategies to engage recent immigrants. "Civic Engagement ...
... much information is that this question of how to improve democracy is already a hot topic at the local level. For the last fifteen years, local leaders have been dealing with a dramatic shift in citizen ...
3. Funding Local Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
The DDC has worked with PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement) to develop "Funding and Fostering Local Democracy," a guide designed to help the philanthropic community grapple with the question ...
4. Online Deliberative Democracy
(About Us/Task Groups)
... in St. Paul, Minnesota. The meeting, attended by state and local elected officials, was widely regarded as highly productive and strengthened the commitment to collaboration among local participants.  ...
5. Democracy Helpline
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
... for dialogue and deliberation on public issues have been initiated by local leaders, including public officials, community organizers, educators, planners, human rights commissioners, and nonprofit directors. ...
6. Affiliates and Partners
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
...  Changes in government budgets Changes in public policy at the local, state, and federal levels    ...
7. Deliberative Democracy Fact Sheet
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
...  Changes in government budgets Changes in public policy at the local, state, and federal levels Since its inception, the Consortium has: Developed ...
... scientists are usually in the best position to analyze the effects of environmental processes and actions, good analysis often requires information about local conditions, which is most likely to come ...
9. The Next Form of Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... local efforts to bring citizens to the table on many issues . . . The stories he tells are rooted in his own experience - he really knows these people and has worked side-by-side with many of them. He ...
10. Taking Democracy to Scale: Trip Report
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... with connections to local, regional, state, and international organizations, both governmental and non-governmental. The organization would model itself on a hub and spokes concept, the national institution ...
... run by political parties of widely different ideological stripes are experimenting with participatory approaches to local governance that have deliberative components. Surprisingly, the reasons for implementing ...
12. Projects
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
... share their own lessons learned. Building a permanent infrastructure for deliberative democracy, including a more supportive legal and policy framework, at the local, state, and federal levels. ...
13. Deliberative Democracy FAQ
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy General)
... of expertise accessible to ordinary people. And while almost all of the projects a decade ago focused on local issues, there are a growing number of examples which have connected citizen ...
14. DDC Resources
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... 5, 2005) The Rise of Democratic Governance This publication from the National League of Cities describes the changing conditions facing local officials, and how they ...
15. We Have A Different Dream Today
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
... fifteen years have witnessed an explosion of local projects and programs in which ordinary citizens get together to talk about, and do something about, race and racism. These efforts have brought about ...
... in St. Paul, Minnesota. The meeting, attended by state and local elected officials, was widely regarded as highly productive and strengthened the commitment to collaboration among local participants.  ...
17. Initiatives
(Section)
... democracy, including a more supportive legal and policy framework, at the local, state, and federal levels. There are a number of projects moving forward under this heading: A Public ...
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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...