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		<title>Meeting the Challenges of a World Divided: Engaging Whole Bodies Politic (Connections 2016)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six-page article, &#8220;Meeting the Challenges of a World Divided: Engaging Whole Bodies Politic&#8221; by&#160;Harold H. Saunders was&#160;published in&#160;Kettering Foundation&#8216;s 2016 edition of their annual newsletter,&#160;Connections&#160;&#8211; Kettering&#8217;s Multinational Research. For this&#160;tenth article of the newsletter, Kettering drew from Saunders book,&#160;Politics is about Relationships: A Worldview for the Citizens&#8217; Century, on the five challenges to citizens for more effectively participating in our global political world. Below is an excerpt from the article and Connections 2016 is available for free PDF download on Kettering&#8217;s site&#160;here. From the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12225">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The United States’ Democratic Promise (IF Discussion Guide)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 36-page discussion guide, The United States&#8217; Democratic Promise,&#160;was published by&#160;Interactivity Foundation&#160;in 2011 and edited by Dennis Boyer. For this discussion guide, IF brought together panelists to explore what democracy has come to mean in the US, why we value it, and to guide further discussion by offering contrasting public policy possibilities. Below is an excerpt from the guide, which can be downloaded as a PDF for free from IF&#8217;s site&#160;here, both in English and in Spanish. From the introduction&#8230; In this project, the two [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12117">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Randomly Selected Chamber: Promises and Challenges</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12025</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 26-page article,&#160;A Randomly Selected Chamber: Promises and Challenges&#160;(2017), was written by Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and Antione Verret-Hamelin, and&#160;published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 13: Iss. 1. In the article, the authors discuss the lack of confidence people have in contemporary democracy and hypothethize the hopes and challenges of how a randomly selected chamber of representatives would address this. Read an excerpt of the article below and find the PDF available for download on&#160;the Journal of Public Deliberation site&#160;here. From the introduction&#8230; Contemporary democratic representation [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12025">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deliberators, not Future Citizens: Children in Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 24-page article, Deliberators, not Future Citizens: Children in Democracy (2017), was written by Kei Nishiyama, and published in the Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 13: Iss. 1. The article advocates for children to be authentically included in deliberative democracy, as opposed to the position most children have, of little to no agency in democratic activities. Read an excerpt of the article below and find the PDF available for download on the Journal of Public Deliberation site here. From the introduction&#8230; Children are &#8220;neither seen [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11997">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wise Democracy Project</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11676</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wise Democracy Project was initiated by Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute with impetus and tremendous help from Martin Rausch in Switzerland, between July 2016 and March 2017. The Wise Democracy Project has been created to inspire the formation of a community of practice around approaches and innovations that can further the development of a democratic system capable of generating wise public policy and collective activities. &#8220;Wise&#8221; in this context means taking into account what needs to be taken into account for long-term broad [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11676">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can Public Life Be Regenerated?</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11567</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 32-page report,&#160;Can Public Life Be Regenerated? (2016), was written by David Mathews and supported by the Cousins Research Group of the Kettering Foundation.&#160;This report is based on a presentations Mathews gave the the Independent Sector conference on issues of community, civil society, and governance. In this report, Mathews explores the possibilities to &#8220;reweave the social fabric&#8221; within society, to improve its social capital and revitalize its sense of community, and create a healthier civil society. Below is an excerpt of the report and it [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11567">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ships Passing in the Night</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11391</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 20-page report, Ships Passing in the Night (2014),&#160;was written by David Mathews and supported by the Cousins Research Group of the Kettering Foundation. In the article, Mathews talks about the two major movements in civic engagement; one in higher education and the other found growing among communities able to work together. He uses the analogy of the wetlands, like how life thrives in the wetlands, it is in communities that can come together, where democracy thrives. Because it is these&#160;opportunities for people to discuss [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11391">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have All the Voters Gone?</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11302</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6-page discussion guide,&#160;Where Have All the Voters Gone?,&#160;was created by the&#160;Maricopa Community Colleges Center for Civic Participation and&#160;Arizona State University Pastor Center for Politics &#38; Public Service. It was updated in July 2016 and was adapted from National Issues Forums Institute. This discussion guide provides four approaches to use in deliberation on why voter turnout is currently low and has dramatically gone down since the 1960s, especially among communities of color. With each approach, the guide offers examples and suggestions; and concerns, trade-offs, and [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11302">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy by Design</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11154</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 8-page article, Democracy by Design (2014), by Nancy Thomas&#160;was&#160;published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 10: Iss. 1. Thomas puts forth, Democracy by Design, which offers the framework for evolving democracy into one that is more robust and truer to the core tenets of the concept of democracy. This framework&#160;has four major foundations in order to have a better democracy: active and deliberative public participation; freedom, justice, and equal opportunity; an educated and informed citizenry, and; effective government structures. It was co-created by Thomas, [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11154">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Deliberation: A Strategy for Civic Renewal</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11144</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6-page article, Beyond Deliberation: A Strategy for Civic Renewal&#160;(2014), by Peter Levine&#160;was&#160;published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 10: Iss. 1. Many well-organized deliberative spaces exist in the US and also, is still small activity compared to the energy used to purposely manipulate public opinion. Levine talks about how civic society has changed from organizing people en masse via churches, unions, and political parties; to a new civic society, where fewer people are organized in these traditional groups and even fewer funders are willing [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11144">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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