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file icon DDC activities gridhot!Tooltip 05/08/2013 Hits: 46
The DDC activities chart gives you an overall picture of the Consortium's work over the last six years.
Discussion materials and organizing suggestions for a school-community forum on school safety and other issues related to the Newtown tragedy.
file icon Deliberation by the Numbershot!Tooltip 08/15/2012 Hits: 838
A compilation of statistics from large-scale deliberative projects
Report by Maxwell School MPA students on the feasibility of an online platform for public participation evaluation.
The 2012 Civic Engagement and Democracy Lecture, given by Matt Leighninger at the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
file icon DDC activities 2007-2013hot!Tooltip 04/25/2012 Hits: 511
The DDC activities chart gives you an overall picture of the Consortium's work over the last six years, with notations for the new publications, events, and areas of work that have emerged over the last three months.
How can legislators and other leaders help create healthier, more productive civil discourse? A new slideshow from the DDC summarizes recent research on legislators' attitudes, and compares those findings with evaluations of public deliberation projects.
Full report of the "Bridging the Gap" project,which summarizes recent research on legislators' attitudes and compares those findings with evaluations of deliberative projects.
Executive Summary of the report on Bridging the Gap between Public Officials and the Public
file icon DDC activities, 2007-2011hot!Tooltip 06/24/2011 Hits: 1227
Chart summarizing the DDC's priorities and activities over the last four years.
How might we redesign local democracy around the day-to-day goals and concerns of citizens? A set of leaders in civic engagement, including representatives of national associations that represent local officials, school systems, funders, and other leaders, met in early 2010 to compare notes on their work in communities and discuss possibilities for innovation. This report describes their discussion and recommendations.
A guide from the National League of Cities and the DDC that helps local leaders work with recent immigrant communities on civic engagement
file icon Creating Spaces for Changehot!Tooltip 04/14/2010 Hits: 4653
A report summarizing the ways in which community organizing and deliberative democracy are converging, the remaining differences, and overarching priorities shared by both strands of active civic engagement.
file icon Democracy, Growing Up hot!Tooltip 07/06/2009 Hits: 5039
Report from 2009 meeting on neighborhood governance, cosponsored by DDC, Grassroots Grantmakers, and the National League of Cities.
From the Collaborative Governance Initiative: In designing public involvement, extra attention to these ten points can help assure an effective and successful process (November 17, 2005).
file icon Public Workshot!Tooltip 05/22/2008 Hits: 4839
Program overview for the Demos Center for the Public Sector: strategies to change perceptions of government and build support for its essential tasks, engaging national and state leaders and beginning a new public conversation (December 5, 2005).
file icon Using the Power to Convenehot!Tooltip 05/22/2008 Hits: 4726
A "how to" for legislative leaders.

JPD

JPD logoThe Journal of Public Deliberation is a collaboration between the DDC, the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2), and the Center for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University. An online, refereed journal, JPD is the flagship publication in its field, and an important catalyst for the rapid growth of interest in democracy, citizenship, and participation. Find it at http://services.bepress.com/jpd.

 

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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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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...

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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...