Category Archives: National

New Essay on CSC in National Civic Review

CSC’s Executive Director, Pete Peterson, has just had his essay, “The Citizen Returns” published in the latest issue of the National Civic Review - the journal of the National Civic League. In it, he briefly tells the history of Common Sense California, using it as a lens through which to look at the field of [...]

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New Book on Online Deliberation

Two Stanford scholars, Todd Davies and Seeta Pena Gangadharan, have recently published the new book, Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. Comprised of 30 chapters on topics like, “Rethinking Local Conversations on the Web” and “Deliberation in E-Rulemaking? The Problem of Mass Participation”, this edited volume covers a lot of ground.
Stanford’s Jim Fishkin (the [...]

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