When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
- ISBN-10
- 019180357X
- ISBN-13
- 9780191803574
- Category
- Deliberative democracy
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- James Steven Fishkin
Description
All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. This book combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks back to ancient Athens can be used to revive our modern democracies. This book outlines deliberative democracy projects conducted by the author with various collaborators in the US, China, Britain, Denmark, Australia, Italy, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland, and in the entire European Union.
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- 2011
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- 2009-08-06
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