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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Florida Frontier: Still Closed</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2011/03/13/the-florida-frontier-still-closed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an update to my earlier post concerning the beginning of the decline in the population of Volusia County, Florida and its ramifications for civic engagement around growth. 
As the enclosed chart indicates, the decline in Volusia population has continued for three straight years after the peak in 2007. As I stated in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Remarks on Conflict and Civility in Contemporary America</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2011/03/13/remarks-on-conflict-and-civility-in-contemporary-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes from a panel discussion sponsored by the Stetson Diversity Council,
Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building, Stetson University. 7pm, Thursday, January 27, 2011
(See also Bill Nylen&#8217;s remarks from the same event)
I’d like to offer a few thoughts on these issues of violence and civility in American society.
ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE
First, about political violence:
I don’t think it’s safe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Civility and Democracy in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Nylen</dc:creator>
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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; Public Participation Project for DeLand 2050</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/10/14/public-participation-project-for-deland-2050/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My students and I are working with the City of DeLand to host a series of public participation forums on DeLand 2050, which is a joint planning project the City is conducting with Volusia County to develop a vision for the long term future of the greater DeLand area. We have completed our first meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Toward a Democratic Ethic for the New Academic Year</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/09/29/toward-a-democratic-ethic-for-the-new-academic-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his autobiography, famed “founding father” Benjamin Franklin enumerated thirteen virtues which he believed led to a morally more perfect life if systematically mastered: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility.  Franklin’s virtues are considered a classic expression of the so-called “Protestant ethic,” a disciplined lifestyle and set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Participatory Institutions in Latin America &#8212; the Next Generation</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/07/28/participatory-institutions-in-latin-america-the-next-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Nylen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

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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; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 4.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/06/08/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth in a series of articles on politically disengaging forms of individualism.  This series explores the connections between individualism(s) and politics through in-depth interviews I conducted with young (20s and 30s) American professionals for a book I am writing on American political culture. Individualism is a word familiar to academics and non-academics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Politics and Democracy as Conversation.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/03/18/politics-and-democracy-as-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Frantzich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each person&#8217;s life is lived in a series of conversations1
In the most basic sense, politics is a set of conversations in which proponents of one position or candidate attempt to secure support from the opponents and/or the undecided. Conversations flow from the public to policy-makers, between policy-makers and from policy-makers to the public. Who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Poor State of Florida&#8217;s Civic Health.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/02/25/the-poor-state-of-floridas-civic-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

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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; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 3.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/01/14/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/01/14/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of articles on politically disengaging forms of individualism (part 1 and part 2). This series explores the connections between individualism(s) and politics through in-depth interviews I conducted with young (20s and 30s) American professionals for a book I am writing on American political culture. 
Individualism is a word familiar [...]]]></description>
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