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Report from NCDD 2008: Evaluation Challenge
At the 2008 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation, we focused on 5 challenges identified by participants at our past conferences as being vitally important for our field to address. This...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Approach to Evaluating Deliberative Public Engagement
This 2008 essay by John Gastil (professor in the Department of Communication, University of Washington) provides a definition of citizen deliberation and suggests broad categories for evaluation,...
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Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic...
Several years in the making, with the involvement of many of us in the D&D community, this 2012 book edited by Tina Nabatchi, John Gastil, G. Michael Weiksner, and Matt Leighninger can be purchased...
View ArticleFuture Directions for Public Deliberation
This final chapter of The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century (pp. 271-288), was published in the Journal for Public Deliberation in...
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Higher Education Exchange 2007
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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Connections 2013: Citizens in Democratic Politics
Connections is a yearly periodical published by the Kettering Foundation featuring articles devoted to a theme. Each issue of the foundation’s annual newsletter focuses on a particular area of...
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Everyone Counts: Could Participatory Budgeting Change Democracy?
Written by Josh Lerner, Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), Everyone Counts was commissioned by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State to celebrate the...
View ArticleBy Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative...
Building on the success of citizen juries and deliberative polling, John Gastil proposes improving our current process by convening randomly selected panels of citizens to deliberate for several days...
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Deliberating While Voting: The Antecedents, Dynamics, And Consequences Of...
The study, Deliberating While Voting: The Antecedents, Dynamics, And Consequences Of Talking While Completing Ballots In Two Vote-By-Mail States (2015), by Justin Reedy and John Gastil was published in...
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Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design: A Preliminary...
The 31-page article, Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design: A Preliminary Assessment of the Efficacy of the Participedia Data Archive as an Analytic Tool (2017), was written by John...
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