[eBook Code] The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (eBook Code, 1st)

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