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 [...]
Stanford’s Jim Fishkin - the creator of the Deliberative Poll - has recently completed a public engagement process in Michigan. The effort - “Hard Times, Hard Choices” - brought together a representative random sample of Michiganders to discuss and weigh policy solutions to the state’s obvious fiscal crisis.
Sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation, Fishkin’s Deliberative Poll [...]
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 [...]