Democracy, Growing Up

Citizens are better at governing, and less willing to be governed, than ever before. So says Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, in his new paper for our Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE), Democracy, Growing Up: The Shifts that Reshaped Local Politics and Foreshadowed the 2008 Presidential Election, looking at the impact of this change as well as new public actors and problem-solvers. The paper is available for download at our CAPE publications center. You might also want to check out Leighninger's video, which takes a less formal approach to the subject.