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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 ...
2. Creating Spaces for Change
(Headlines/U.S. News)
Over the last two decades, ordinary people have been playing increasingly prominent roles in politics and public life, thanks in part to the work of an unheralded set of leaders. These practitioners of ...
... attitudes and capacities. This transformation has caused new tensions between residents and elected officials, produced new public actors and problem-solvers, and inspired a new generation of civic experiments. ...
4. Funding Local Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... volunteerism—can help funders, public officials and community activists better understand the possibilities, and limitations, of various approaches to working with the public. “As more and more foundations ...
5. No Taxation Without Deliberation
(The Democracy Movement/General)
... I have some sympathy, for what deliberation has taken place within government is not always readily visible to the general public, and there certainly has not been much public bi-partisan deliberation ...
6. Online democracy between elections
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
An excellent new study describes the use of online tools to enable public involvement between elections. "E-Consultation: Enabling Democracy Between Elections" was written by Joe Peters and Manon Abud ...
7. FedNet
(About Us/Task Groups)
... in deliberation" award for federal managers and others. Identify research questions that are compelling for federal public participation practitioners. Download ...
8. Democracy Helpline
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
... publications and resource organizations gathered from all over the world. The Beta version of the Helpline is now up and running at http://helpline.deliberative-democracy.net. On the Democracy Helpline ...
9. Affiliates and Partners
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
DDC affiliates have: ...on issues such as: ...resulting in: provided assistance to hundreds of public involvement projects that have engaged hundreds of ...
10. 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 ...
11. The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
...  The DDC has helped produce: The Deliberative Democracy Handbook The Journal of Public Deliberation The Deliberation Measurement Toolbox Mapping the Field of Deliberative ...
12. Diers on neighborhood problem-solving
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
... Street-Level Social Issues is a publication of the Canada West Foundation; you can find it here. ...
13. 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 ...
14. Teaching Democracy in Public Administration
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
Why should public administration educators be rethinking their approach to democracy? Is “collaborative governance” broadening to include (or evolving into?) “democratic governance?” How should PA schools ...
15. Who Should Be the Civic Advisors to the Next President?
(The Democracy Movement/Links to Government)
... on issues of public engagement and democratic governance. The November 5th Coalition is an all-partisan alliance committed to civic partnerships that address our biggest challenges. The Coalition is named ...
16. Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
... engage citizens in public decision-making and problem solving.    ...
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 ...
18. Conference on Online Deliberation
(Headlines/U.S. News)
Texas Forums reports that the Public Sphere Project - a collaboration of UC Berkeley and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - recently hosted "Tools for Participation," a conference on online ...
19. 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 ...
20. The Deliberative Democracy Handbook
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... part of many public decisions. Deliberative democracy is the nationwide movement to make citizen participation meaningful and effective. Most citizen participation events fail to truly engage citizens ...
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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...