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		<title>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>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:52:40 +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>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 15:17:28 +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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		<title>A Manifesto for Educational Democracy</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/12/10/a-manifesto-for-educational-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/12/10/a-manifesto-for-educational-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

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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>On the &#8220;political wetlands&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/11/16/on-the-political-wetlands/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/11/16/on-the-political-wetlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>

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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>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 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Nylen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thepolity.net/wordpress/?p=131</guid>
		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

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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>Age, Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Competition in the 2008 Election</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/19/age-race-ethnicity-and-electoral-competition-in-the-2008-election/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/19/age-race-ethnicity-and-electoral-competition-in-the-2008-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Race & Ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To state that the 2008 presidential election was historic is, of course, now a bit passé.  The election, however, was historic.  Not only did 2008 witness the first African-American and female candidates with a legitimate chance of winning the presidency (and the first woman on the national Republican ticket), the American electorate, in fact, elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thepolity.net/wordpress/?p=76</guid>
		<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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		<title>Brief Review: Leighninger, The Next Form of Democracy</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/09/23/brief-review-leighninger-the-next-form-of-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/09/23/brief-review-leighninger-the-next-form-of-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Organizing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leighninger, Matt. 2006. The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance &#8212; and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press (082651541X).
Matt Leigninger, executive director of the newly formed Deliberative Democracy Consortium, has provided a volume that exceeds the quality of what is typical on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconnecting with America’s Invisible Democracy</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/09/12/reconnecting-with-america%e2%80%99s-invisible-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/09/12/reconnecting-with-america%e2%80%99s-invisible-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category>

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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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