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The Deliberative Democracy Handbook
Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
John Gastil (Edited by), J Gastil (Author), Peter Levine (Edited by)
9781118105108, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 7 April 2011
338 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.8 cm, 1.021 kg
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike. It combines rich case material from many cities and types of institutional settings with careful reflection on core principles. It generates hope for a renewed democracy, tempered with critical scholarship and political realism. Most important, this handbook opens a spacious window on the innovativeness of citizens in the U.S. (and around the world) and shows how the varied practices of deliberative democracy are part of a larger civic renewal movement.
Tables and Figures xi Preface xiii About the Editors xvii About the Contributors xix PART ONE: BACKGROUND 1 1 A Nation That (Sometimes) Likes to Talk: A Brief History of Public Deliberation in the United States 3 2 What Can We Learn from the Practice of Deliberative Democracy? 20 PART TWO: DELIBERATION AND PUBLIC JUDGMENT 35 3 National Issues Forums: A Network of Communities Promoting Public Deliberation 37 4 Electoral Deliberation and Public Journalism 59 5 Deliberative Polling*: From Experiment to Community Resource 68 6 Consensus Conferences and Planning Cells: Lay Citizen Deliberations: 80 7 Citizens Juries: Creating a Trustworthy Voice of the People 111 8 Adapting and Combining Deliberative Designs: Juries, Polls, and Forums 120 PART THREE: DELIBERATIVE GOVERNANCE 139 9 Bringing the Public and the Government Together Through On-Line Dialogues 141 10 A Town Meeting for the Twenty-First Century 154 11 Collaborative Learning and the Public's Stewardship of Its Forests 164 12 Participation and Public Policies in Brazil 174 13 Deliberative City Planning on the Philadelphia Waterfront 185 PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES AND DELIBERATIVE CULTURE 197 14 Study Circles: Local Deliberation as the Cornerstone of Deliberative Democracy 199 15 e-thePeople.org: Large-Scale, Ongoing Deliberation 213 16 Learning Democracy Centers: Where the Public Works 228 17 Disagreement and Consensus: The Importance of Dynamic Updating in Public Deliberation 237 18 Growing Governance Deliberatively: Lessons and Inspiration from Hampton, Virginia 254 PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 269 19 Future Directions for Public Deliberation 271 Recommended Reading 289 Index 301
John Gastil, Peter Levine
John Gastil, William M. Keith
Mark Button, David Michael Ryfe
Keith Melville, Taylor L. Willingham, John R. Dedrick
Michelle Charles, Harris Sokoloff, Chris Satullo
James Fishkin, Cynthia Farrar
Carolyn M. Hendriks
Ned Crosby, Doug Nethercut
Lyn Carson, Janette Hartz-Karp
Patricia A. Bonner, Robert Carlitz, Rosemary Gunn, Laurie E. Maak, Charles A. Ratliff
Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, Joe Goldman, Steven Brigham
Antony S. Cheng, Janet D. Fiero
Vera Schattan P. Coelho, Barbara Pozzoni, Mariana Cifuentes Montoya
Harris Sokoloff, Harris M. Steinberg, Steven N. Pyser
Patrick L. Scully, Martha L. McCoy
G. Michael Weiksner
Carole J. Schwinn, John T. Kesler, David R. Schwinn
Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jane Mansbridge
William R. Potapchuk, Cindy Carlson, Joan Kennedy
Peter Levine, Archon Fung, John Gastil
Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]
