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		<title>&#124;&#124; Participatory Institutions in Latin America &#8212; the Next Generation</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Nylen</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Frantzich</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/02/25/the-poor-state-of-floridas-civic-health/#comments</comments>
		<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; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 3.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/01/14/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>&#124;&#124; A Manifesto for Educational Democracy.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/12/10/a-manifesto-for-educational-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools as “Leader Training Grounds”
A couple of years ago, I received news from Deerfield Academy, a prep school in Massachusetts and my high school alma mater, that its headmaster, Eric Widmer was to become the first headmaster of the newly formed “King’s Academy,” in Madaba, Jordan.  As Deerfield’s alumni newsletter indicated, The King’s Academy aspires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; On the &#8220;Political Wetlands.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/11/16/on-the-political-wetlands/</link>
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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; The Promise of Local Government as a ‘School of Democracy’ (Part Two): The City of DeLand, Florida.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/11/05/the-promise-of-local-government-as-a-%e2%80%98school-of-democracy%e2%80%99-part-two-the-city-of-deland-florida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Nylen</dc:creator>
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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; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 2.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/27/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/27/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a piece started in this post.
Private individualism’s third inclination is to define freedom in individual rather than collective terms.  Freedom is commonly considered a, if not the cardinal American value.  Contrary to political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville’s early sense that Americans value their equality more than their freedom, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 1.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/02/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/02/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first 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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