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A Primer for Promoting Deliberative Democracy and the Dynamics of Development at the Grassroots
No full textBook Review of Participação e Deliberação. Teoria Democrática e Experiências Institucionais no Brasil Contemporâneo. - Portuguese Version
No full textDisagreement and Consensus: The Need for Dynamic Updating in Public Deliberation
No full textThis analysis compares a consensus-oriented procedure, Princeton Future, with a more adversarial procedure, the public meetings of the Princeton, N.J. borough council, organized as public hearings. It finds that the consensus-oriented procedure failed to pick up significant conflicting interests among the citizens and as a consequence failed to provide venues for discussing and possibly negotiating those interests. It advises that deliberative democratic procedures provide for dynamic updating on the underlying and changing interest structure before and during deliberation, with particular attention to the important lines of conflict. Thus facilitators should help participants in deliberation not only forge common interests but also clarify their conflicting interests
e-Rulemaking: a New Avenue for Public Engagement
No full textA new online system is being created to support rulemaking, the process agencies use to implement federal legislation. The new system will allow members of the public to participate in rulemaking far more easily than ever before, realizing the potential of legislation that has been in place since 1946. Online rulemaking may lead to a process that is more inclusive in scope and more open to public discussion
