We just heard that the first volume of the Journal of Public Deliberation (JPD) is now available online. The JPD received a grant from the Deliberative Democracy Consortium in 2003, and with the leadership of Ted Becker, has a dynamic set of articles in its first edition. Click here to read the first edition of the journal. Click the link below to see the contents of this edition.

Peter Levine, Archon Fung, and John Gastil, Future Directions for Public Deliberation

Peter Muhlberger, The Virtual Agora Project: A Research Design for Studying Democratic Deliberation

Christopher F. Karpowitz and Jane Mansbridge, Disagreement and Consensus: The Need for Dynamic Updating in Public Deliberation

Janette Hartz-Karp, A Case Study in Deliberative Democracy: Dialogue with the City

Robert Carlitz and Rosemary Gunn, e-Rulemaking: a New Avenue for Public Engagement

Ramon Daubon, A Primer for Promoting Deliberative Democracy and the Dynamics of Development at the Grassroots

Ethan J. Leib, The Chinese Communist Party and Deliberative Democracy

Amy Lang

Amy Lang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia. She wrote her dissertation on British Columbia’s groundbreaking Citizens’ Assembly process, and is currently doing follow-up research on the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly.

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