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1. Creating Spaces for Change
(Headlines/U.S. News)
... and deliberative democrats want to prioritize: going beyond mobilization techniques to more structural changes in the ways that communities make decisions and solve problems. The report can be downloaded ...
... explore benefits and drawbacks of policies or plans, make recommendations, or develop plans or decisions in order to guide the decisions or plans of agencies or guide the decisions or plans of nongovernmental ...
3. Funding Local Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... Executive Director of PACE, "This guide is an attempt to demystify the emerging field of deliberative democracy and help funders make more informed decisions about their support of this growing field.” ...
4. No Taxation Without Deliberation
(The Democracy Movement/General)
... protestor's sign. As in this brief letter from an Indianan, you can see the gist of the argument.   The idea is that we are making enormous fiscal decisions without sufficient deliberation. On that point, ...
5. FedNet
(About Us/Task Groups)
The Link to Government group (LTG) was formed to identify opportunities and develop strategies to promote and support citizen deliberation in government decision-making. At present LTG is ...
6. The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... in qualitatively better, more lasting decisions on policy matters. Participation in such forums is a central to democratic renewal. Essentially, our view is that democratic deliberation is a powerful, ...
7. 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 ...
9. Conference on Online Deliberation
(Headlines/U.S. News)
... deliberation. From the organizers' site: At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and ...
10. 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 ...
11. The Next Form of Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... a dramatic shift. More than ever before, citizens are educated, skeptical, and capable of bringing the decision-making process to a sudden halt. Public officials and other leaders are tired of confrontation ...
12. Taking Democracy to Scale: Trip Report
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... directly with the national government by way of statutory authority or whether it should be a free-standing institution. The decision was reached that this would be an entity that was free standing, ...
... terms of their advisory capacity to policy development, rather than as a means to replace existing decision-making processes or representative forms of government. The tensions between ...
... between elections. Second, they involve citizens directly or through neighborhood councils in some sort of collective dialogue and decision-making on policy and resource allocation in coordination with ...
15. 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 ...
16. Deliberative Democracy FAQ
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy General)
What is "deliberation"? Deliberation is an approach to decision-making in which citizens consider relevant facts from multiple points of view, converse with one another ...
... this in mind, we need to listen to people’s voices extensively and pool the people’s wisdom when we take actions and make decisions. The web is an important channel for us to understand the concerns of ...
18. FedNet
(Category)
The Link to Government group (LTG) was formed to identify opportunities and develop strategies to promote and support citizen deliberation in government decision-making. At present LTG is ...
19. Initiatives
(Section)
... on a new set of activities, each of which is aligned with one of four key priorities: Helping all kinds of public leaders find the examples and resources they need to make informed decisions ...
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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...