This article explores how deliberative democracy has the ability to change how colleges and
universities function. Deliberation offers a powerful way for students, faculty, staff, and …

Focusing mainly on one particularly rich and illustrative case study—the University of
Virginia—and grounded in a larger ethnographic study of higher education for citizenship …

Cooperative Extension has a rich history of providing research-based knowledge and
functioning as a catalyst for change through community engagement. It is via this second …

This chapter focuses on historical and contemporary examples of civic education and
deliberative democracy efforts that put civil discourse at the center of that work. By looking at …

This article examines the role professionals can play in expanding the concept and practice
of democracy. It argues that the ways professionals are usually socialized to understand …

Beyond the Myth of the Town Meeting: Discursive Engagement as Governance Page 1 Journal
of Public Deliberation Volume 15 Issue 2 Town Meeting Politics in the United States: The Idea …

The Great Depression was an extreme period of hardship and transformation in the United
States, altering the ways in which the federal government engaged and interacted with …