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		<title>&#124;&#124; Civility and Democracy in America</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic politics is not always pretty.  One could even define democracy as institutionally constrained conflict, with an emphasis on both conflict, which is necessary to expand and protect the scope and reach of civil/political rights to all citizens, and institutional constraint, which is also necessary to keep such conflict within the bounds of legality and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Participatory Institutions in Latin America &#8212; the Next Generation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, Rebecca Abers published the first scholarly book in English on participatory budgeting in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre: Reinventing Local Democracy (2000).  Since then, a score of books have come out on the subject, including one by this author, as well as numerous scholarly articles and doctoral dissertations.  Empirical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Promise of Local Government as a ‘School of Democracy’ (Part Two): The City of DeLand, Florida.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Not only did citizens see their local governments as more relevant; they were also more accessible.  Relevance and accessibility, de Tocqueville argued, translated into active citizen participation &#8212; in local government bodies and in numerous voluntary associations &#8212; and what political scientists today would call high feelings of personal efficacy.” [from Part One of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Promise of Local Government as a ‘School of Democracy’: Alexis de Tocqueville (part 1).</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexis de Tocqueville is widely considered to be the founding father of studies in community-based empowerment and participatory democracy.  Researching and writing his famous Democracy in America back in the early 1800s, he was the first to argue the relationship between, in the first instance, a particular democratic institutional design (“administrative decentralization,” and vibrant local-level [...]]]></description>
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