Issue Area: Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
COMBINED THEMES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FIVE WARDS
Community Conversations on Education in DC
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
This report, a companion to "Combined Themes and Recommendations from 5 Wards," summarizes the main themes and recommendations from an engagement initiative in Washington, DC, in summer 2012.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
WARD-LEVEL SUMMARY REPORT
Community Conversations on Education in DC
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
This report, a companion to "Ward-Level Summary Report," summarizes the main themes and recommendations from an engagement initiative in Washington, DC, in summer 2012.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
DON'T COUNT US OUT
How an Overreliance on Accountability Could Undermine the Public's Confidence in Schools, Business, Government & More
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
New research presents startling evidence that the public and leaders hold vastly different ideas about what it even means to be accountable.
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Issue Area(s): Voting & Government, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
BEGINNING WITH THE END IN MIND
A Call for Goal-Driven Deliberative Practice
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
Public Agenda teams up with Martín Carcasson from the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University to disseminate his latest thinking about the goals and consequences of public deliberation.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
BEYOND DEBATE
Impacts of Deliberative Issue Framing on Group Dialogue and Problem Solving
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
The research summarized in this article was conducted in order to gain a deeper understanding of one key element of these proper conditions: framing issues for deliberation.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
DEMOCRACY, GROWING UP
The Shifts That Reshaped Local Politics and Foreshadowed the 2008 Presidential Election
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
In this report, Matt Leighninger summarizes and updates his main arguments on the larger patterns in the many strands of the deliberative democracy movement that have been emerging in recent years.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
PROMISING PRACTICES IN ONLINE ENGAGEMENT
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
The fact that the Internet is one of the most powerful organizing tools in history is both thrilling and vexing to public engagement practitioners working to create the conditions for more effective public involvement in public life.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND AMERICA'S GROWING LATINO POPULATION
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
Understanding the barriers to, and opportunities for, more empowered participation of Latino populations is a pressing need facing advocates of deliberative democracy.
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Issue Area(s): Immigration, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy, Race
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
A Primer from Public Agenda
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2008
In this document Public Agenda offers a brief summary of the essential elements of our evolving approach to public engagement.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
REFRAMING "FRAMING"
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
What if we were to reframe framing to focus less on how it can help one side or another win the political game and more on what it means, and can mean, for strengthening the democratic process?
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
TRANSFORMING PUBLIC LIFE
A Decade of Citizen Engagement in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
As a result of roughly a decade of hard work by organizations, "ordinary" citizens and various local leaders, public engagement has become embedded in the life of Bridgeport, CT.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
JUST WAITING TO BE ASKED
A Fresh Look at Attitudes on Public Engagement
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2001
Parents and the public would like to see more community involvement, but two-thirds say they're comfortable leaving decisions to the professionals.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
A White Paper Prepared for the Ford Foundation by Public Agenda
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 1999
Commissioned by the Ford Foundation, this paper defines public engagement and outlines the successful strategies for involving citizens.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
ACCOMPLISHING REFORM WITH PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
A Map of the Process
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 1995
Prepared in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation, this map helps citizens and community groups who want to undertake reform but believe the public should or needs to be their partner if real change is to occur.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AT PUBLIC AGENDA
Media Type: PDF
Public Agenda employs engagement strategies and tools in such a way that they help citizens and communities tackle tough issues like improving education, managing sprawl or bettering police-community relations.
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Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy