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		<title>&#124;&#124; Forum on the Public’s Role in Planning for Growth and Development.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We (the students enrolled in my Civic Education class, myself, and the other contributing editors of thepolity.net) hosted a public deliberative forum at Stetson University on April 20, 2010. I plan to share the results and reflections on that event in some detail. First up is the formal press release we issued at the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Poor State of Florida&#8217;s Civic Health.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Civic Health Index  ranks Florida 44th in terms of its civic culture, concluding “it is, in fact,  one of the worst in the nation” (2). The overall ranking is a composite of sub  scores, ranking the state 34th in voter turnout, 37th in citizens working with  others to address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; On the &#8220;Political Wetlands.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a series of recent articles David Matthews, President of the Kettering Foundation, has offered the concept of  the &#8220;political wetlands&#8221; as a wellspring of an organic and deliberative form of democracy.1 He argues that the political wetlands lie underneath the superstructure of institutional politics where in &#8220;informal gatherings, ad hoc associations, and the seemingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Brief Review: Leighninger, The Next Form of Democracy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leighninger, Matt. 2006. The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance &#8212; and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press (082651541X).
Matt Leigninger, executive director of the newly formed Deliberative Democracy Consortium, has provided a volume that exceeds the quality of what is typical on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Closing of the Florida Frontier?</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/08/30/the-closing-of-the-florida-frontier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent feature articles in the New York Times (August 29, 2009) and Orlando Sentinel (August 17, 2009) have highlighted the beginning of the decline of population in Florida. After a century of rapid population growth that provided the mainstay of economic development and dominated state politics, Florida appears to be entering a new era.
It is [...]]]></description>
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