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|| Forum on the Public’s Role in Planning for Growth and Development.

Posted by Bill Ball on Wednesday, April 21, 2010.

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 [...]

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|| Reconnecting with America’s Invisible Democracy.

Posted by Paul Lachelier on Saturday, September 12, 2009.

Ask Americans to tell you whatever comes to mind when they think of the word “politics” and to no one’s surprise, a lot of what they say will be negative.  But beyond the negative association with politics, there is another pattern less often noted yet perhaps just as significant for democracy in America: when most [...]

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