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		<title>Discourse Quality in Deliberative Citizen Forums – A Comparison of Four Deliberative Mini-publics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 30-page article, Discourse Quality in Deliberative Citizen Forums &#8211; A Comparison of Four Deliberative Mini-publics&#160;(2017), was written by Steffan Himmelroos, and&#160;published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 13: Iss. 1. In the article, the author compares the findings from four deliberative citizen forums in order to better understand the quality of deliberation that tends to take place and suggests there are groups that have less influence in these processes. Read an excerpt of the article below and find the PDF available for download on&#160;the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12009">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Equity in School Forums: An Interview with John Landesman</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11646</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 14-page article, Equity in School Forums: An Interview with John Landesman (2016),&#160;was written by Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael, and published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 12: Iss. 2. In the article, the authors interview Landesman of Everyday Democracy to share his experience working to address the barriers within the Montgomery County Study Circles Program, which he helped to coordinate. Landesman clarifies the importance between equality and equity; and how these play out when designing a process to effective address the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11646">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens at Work: An Interim Report [KF A Public Voice 2016]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 24-page interim report, Citizens at Work, was released by Kettering Foundation at their annual event, A Public Voice 2016 in May 2016. The interim report describes Kettering&#8217;s two series of deliberative forums held between 2015-2016. The two series revolved around the issue guides,&#160;Health Care: How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?&#160;and&#160;Making Ends Meet: How Should We Spread Prosperity and Improve Opportunity?, which were&#160;prepared by Kettering and used for National Issues Forums. Below is more info from Kettering on the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11034">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>At Franklin Pierce, Learning to Make a Difference (Connections 2015)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10743</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two-page article, At Franklin Pierce, Learning to Make a Difference,&#160;by Joni Doherty&#160;was&#160;published Fall 2015 in Kettering Foundation&#8216;s annual newsletter, &#8220;Connections 2015 &#8211; Our History: Journeys in KF Research&#8221;. Doherty shares about the New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce University, and its focus on teaching and deliberation. Find the full article below, and Connections 2015 is available for free PDF download on Kettering&#8217;s site here. From the article&#8230; The New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce University is dedicated to [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10743">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Listening for, and Finding, a Public Voice (Connections 2015)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four-page article, Listening for, and Finding, a Public Voice&#160;by&#160;Bob Daley&#160;was published Fall 2015 in Kettering Foundation&#8216;s annual newsletter, &#8220;Connections 2015 &#8211; Our History: Journeys in KF Research&#8221;. The article describes how the design of deliberative democracy by David Mathews, president of Kettering Foundation, and Daniel Yankelovich, president of Public Agenda; sought to address what it meant to have &#8220;a public voice&#8221;. From this inquiry came a series of&#160;deliberative forums around some of the more important current issues, and the results were then shared with [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10613">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deliberative Publicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deliberative Publicity by Chris Karpowitz and Chad Raphael, was published on the Deliberative Democracy Consortium blog in April 2015. The article talks about the evolving role of publicity around deliberative forums, and how deliberative publicity has the power to amplify the public&#8217;s voice and create meaningful connections to the larger political structure. Karpowitz and Raphael analyzed&#160;a wide variety of deliberative forum practices, and found that many had opportunities for improvement when publicizing a forum around transparency and accurately sharing participant&#8217;s viewpoints. They recognized the growing [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10599">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From Public Policy Institutes to Centers for Public Life: Transforming People and Communities (Connections 2015)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10560</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six-page article,&#160;From Public Policy Institutes to Centers for Public Life: Transforming People and Communities by Alice Diebel,&#160;was published Fall 2015 in&#160;Kettering Foundation&#8216;s annual newsletter,&#8220;Connections 2015 &#8211; Our History: Journeys in KF Research&#8221;. Diebel shares how Kettering&#8217;s research fueled the development of issues guides to be used in the National Issues Forums&#160;and ultimately, improve the ways that democracy works. She shares the beginning of the forums as Public Policy Institutes (PPIs) and how they transformed into a&#160;new approach, Centers for Public Life. Read more an [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10560">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Treasure Chest About to Open (Connection 2015)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10540</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This brief two-page article, A Treasure Chest About to Open by Nicholas A. Felts was published in Kettering Foundation&#8216;s annual newsletter,&#8220;Connections 2015 &#8211; Our History: Journeys in KF Research&#8221; in the fall of 2015. Felts shares some of the history of National Issues Forums, one of the most valuable assets to come from the forums, and reveals an exciting project soon to be released from Kettering. NIF has been running for 30 years, making it one of the longest running citizen-to-citizen public engagement experiences. Over [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10540">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Issue Guide and the Issue Forum: Political Inventions (Connections 2015)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This three-page article, The Issue Guide and the Issue Forum: Political Inventions, by Brad Rourke was published in Kettering Foundation&#8216;s annual newsletter, &#8220;Connections 2015 &#8211; Our History: Journeys in KF Research&#8221; in the fall of 2015. &#160;In the article, Rourke discusses the relationship between Kettering&#8217;s research and the National Issues Forums; how the Foundation&#8217;s research lead to&#160;the creation of NIFI&#8217;s issue guides, which were put into practice within the forums. What emerged was a better understanding of how individuals&#160;wrestled with their most wicked problems on [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10516">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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