The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies For Effective Civic Engagement In The Twenty-First Century

Tables and Figures xi Preface xiii John Gastil, Peter Levine 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 John Gastil, William M. Keith 2 What Can We Learn from the Practice of Deliberative Democracy? 20 Mark Button, David Michael Ryfe PART TWO: DELIBERATION AND PUBLIC JUDGMENT 35 3 National Issues Forums: A Network of Communities Promoting Public Deliberation 37 Keith Melville, Taylor L. Willingham, John R. Dedrick 4 Electoral Deliberation and Public Journalism 59 Michelle Charles, Harris Sokoloff, Chris Satullo 5 Deliberative Polling*: From Experiment to Community Resource 68 James Fishkin, Cynthia Farrar 6 Consensus Conferences and Planning Cells: Lay Citizen Deliberations: 80 Carolyn M. Hendriks 7 Citizens Juries: Creating a Trustworthy Voice of the People 111 Ned Crosby, Doug Nethercut 8 Adapting and Combining Deliberative Designs: Juries, Polls, and Forums 120 Lyn Carson, Janette Hartz-Karp PART THREE: DELIBERATIVE GOVERNANCE 139 9 Bringing the Public and the Government Together Through On-Line Dialogues 141 Patricia A. Bonner, Robert Carlitz, Rosemary Gunn, Laurie E. Maak, Charles A. Ratliff 10 A Town Meeting for the Twenty-First Century 154 Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, Joe Goldman, Steven Brigham 11 Collaborative Learning and the Public's Stewardship of Its Forests 164 Antony S. Cheng, Janet D. Fiero 12 Participation and Public Policies in Brazil 174 Vera Schattan P. Coelho, Barbara Pozzoni, Mariana Cifuentes Montoya 13 Deliberative City Planning on the Philadelphia Waterfront 185 Harris Sokoloff, Harris M. Steinberg, Steven N. Pyser PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES AND DELIBERATIVE CULTURE 197 14 Study Circles: Local Deliberation as the Cornerstone of Deliberative Democracy 199 Patrick L. Scully, Martha L. McCoy 15 e-thePeople.org: Large-Scale, Ongoing Deliberation 213 G. Michael Weiksner 16 Learning Democracy Centers: Where the Public Works 228 Carole J. Schwinn, John T. Kesler, David R. Schwinn 17 Disagreement and Consensus: The Importance of Dynamic Updating in Public Deliberation 237 Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jane Mansbridge 18 Growing Governance Deliberatively: Lessons and Inspiration from Hampton, Virginia 254 William R. Potapchuk, Cindy Carlson, Joan Kennedy PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 269 19 Future Directions for Public Deliberation 271 Peter Levine, Archon Fung, John Gastil Recommended Reading 289 Index 301