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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 ...
... citizen participation to support public deliberation.” “When engaging in national discussions, add in a set of questions about the actions people can take at the local level.” “Empower federal agencies ...
3. DDC Staff
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... the National League of Cities, Centers for Disease Control, and the League of Women Voters. His first book, The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule is Giving Way to Shared Governance – and Why Politics ...
4. Democracy Helpline
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
... engagement efforts of the Centers for Disease Control on pandemic influenza, and the work of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. NeighborWorks America has contributed a small start-up grant to the ...
5. Affiliates and Partners
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
...  For the next stage of its work, the DDC has reached out farther to a new set of partners, forming connections with national associations that represent many of the leaders ...
6. Deliberative Democracy Fact Sheet
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... Renaissance Kettering Foundation National Civic League NCDD Study Circles Resource Center Hundreds of public involvement projects that have engaged hundreds of thousands ...
7. The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... Agency National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office National Vaccine Advisory Committee Central to our work is the conviction that the outcomes of deliberation result ...
8. America Wants National Discussions
(The Democracy Movement/AmericaSpeaks)
The National Conference on Citizenship just put out its third Civic Health Index. Lots of really interesting stuff, including:87% of the American public support giving every young person the opportunity ...
9. Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
... help from the National League of Cities and NeighborWorks America. The discussion focused on lessons from Portland, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and other cities that have experimented with creative ways to ...
The National Academies just published a report on public participation in environmental decision making. Here’s a segment of the press release: "When done correctly, public participation improves the quality ...
11. GOP Website Offers Platform Input
(Headlines/U.S. News)
[From NPR.org] The Platform Committee for the Republican National Convention has launched a Web site to introduce participatory democracy to the platform-writing process. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says ...
12. The Next Form of Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
In the 20th century, public life revolved around government; in the 21st century, it will center on citizens Beneath the national radar, the relationship between citizens and government is undergoing ...
13. Taking Democracy to Scale: Trip Report
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... to the national scale. Assembled at the conference was a diverse group of theoreticians, foundations, government officials, and practitioners to offer insight into how this might be achieved. AmericaSpeaks ...
14. Thrilling Show of People Power
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... had described them last week as mere first drafts, saying the actual buildings would probably emerge from an international competition among architects. Too vague a promise, said the people. And in this ...
... that have been used through the National Issues Forums and other organizations/institutions all over the country for a number of years. Recently, the Foundation sought to explore why some issue books spark ...
by Carolyn Hendriks, Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University Introduction Citizens are being called to play a greater ...
... previously made primarily to national authorities. Second, the nature of politics in Latin America changed significantly in the 1980s and 1990s causing political leaders to seek out new ways of ...
18. Expecting More from Your eGovernment
(The Democracy Movement/Online Deliberation)
... launched a wiki (a site that anyone can edit) to solicit citizen input on the wording of a new national Policing Act before it was formally introduced in parliament." "Similarly, in France, the Parliament ...
19. Projects
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
... decisions about how to engage citizens. For example, we are developing the Democracy Helpline, an unprecedented international resource that will be available by phone or on the Internet. Using a set ...
20. 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 ...
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