Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back Into Politics

Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back Into Politics
ISBN-10
0190084529
ISBN-13
9780190084523
Category
Political Science
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
John Gastil, Katherine R. Knobloch

Description

Hope for Democracy recognizes the primary problems that plague contemporary democracy and offers a solution. It tells the story of one civic innovation, the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), which asks a small group of citizens to analyze a ballot measure and then provide recommendations on that measure for the public to use when voting. It relies on narratives of the civic reformers who developed and implemented the CIR and the citizens who participated inthe initial review. Coupled with extensive research, the book uses these stories to describe how the review came into being and what impacts it has on participants and the public.

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