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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; 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; 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; Reconnecting with America’s Invisible Democracy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Promise of Local Government as a ‘School of Democracy’: Alexis de Tocqueville (part 1).</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/08/27/the-promise-of-local-government-as-a-%e2%80%98school-of-democracy%e2%80%99-alexis-de-tocqueville-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Nylen</dc:creator>
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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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