Library: Bibliography

Classics

• Arendt, Hannah, On Revolution (New York: Viking Press, 1963).
• Barber, Benjamin, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1984).
• Boyte, Harry, CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1989).
• Evans, Sara, Born For Liberty (New York: The Free Press, 1997).
• Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Vintage Books, 1992).
• Mansbridge, Jane, Beyond Adversary Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
• Mathews, David, Politics for People (Champaign/Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999).
• Olson, Mancur, The Logic of Collective Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1971).
• Pitkin, Hannah Fenichel, and Sara M. Shumer, "On Participation," Journal of Democracy 2, 1982.
• Sirianni, Carmen, and Lewis Friedland, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy and the Movement for Civic Renewal (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001).

Community organizing

• Bobo, Kim, Jackie Kendall, and Steve Max, Organizing For Social Change ( Seven Locks Press, 2001).
• Fung, Archon, "Can Social Movements Save Democracy?" Boston Review, February-March 2003.
• Gittell, Ross, and A. Vidal, Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).
• Grinthal, Michael, "Activist Reactions to Deliberation," unpublished manuscript, September 2003.
• Jehl, Jeanne, Martin J. Blank, and Barbara McCloud, Education and Community Building: Connecting Two Worlds (Washington, DC: Institute for Educational Leadership, 2001).
• Smock, Kristina, "Building Effective Partnerships: The Process of Structure and Collaboration," Shelterforce Online, May-June 1999.
• Smock, Kristina, Democracy in Action: Community Organizing and Urban Change (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
• Wood, Richard, Faith in Action: Religion, Race and Democratic Organizing in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Federal-level projects

• Cortner, Hanna J., "Reconciling Citizen, Analyst, and Manager Roles in Democratic Governance," Report to the National Drought Study, 2003.
• Gastil, John, By Popular Demand (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2000).
• Leighninger, Matt, The Potentially Concerned Public: A Report on the Citizen Involvement Activities of U.S. Federal Agencies (Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control, 2002).
• Local Voices: Citizen Conversations on Civil Liberties and Secure Communities (Washington, DC: League of Women Voters, 2005).
• Torres, Lars Hasselblad, The Deliberative Agency (Washington, DC: Deliberative Democracy Consortium, 2004).

How-to: Dialogue and Deliberation overall

• Gastil, John, and Peter Levine, The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005).
• Heierbacher, Sandy, Tonya Gonzalez, Bruce Feustel, and David E. Booher, "Deliberative Democracy Networks: A Resource Guide," National Civic Review 93, 2004.
• Heierbacher, Sandy, and Tonya Gonzalez, "Beginner's Toolkit to Dialogue and Deliberation," http://www.ncdd.org
• Houlé, Kristin, and Rona Roberts, Toward Competent Communities (Lexington, KY: Roberts & Kay, Inc., 2000).
• Leighninger, Matt, Smart Democracy: How to Engage Citizens, IQ Report (Washington, DC: International City/County Managers Association, January 2002).
• Lukensmeyer, Carolyn, and Lars Hasselblad Torres, Public Deliberation: A Manager's Guide to Citizen Engagement (Washington, DC: IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2006).
• Ponomareff, Shirley, and Matt Leighinger, Building Communities: The ABCs of Public Dialogue (Washington, DC: League of Women Voters, 2004).
• Shapiro, Ilana, Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: A Guide to Selected Programs (Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 2002).
• Wright, Gwen, Christopher Hoene, and Matt Leighninger, Making Progress Toward Issues of Race: Goals and Processes for Citizen Involvement (Washington, DC: National League of Cities, 2003).

How-to: Evaluation

• House, Ernest, "The Many Forms of Democratic Evaluation," The Evaluation Exchange, Fall 2005.

How-to: Formats

• Lukensmeyer, Carolyn, Joe Goldman, and Steve Brigham, "A Town Meeting for the 21st Century," in Deliberative Democracy Handbook, edited by John Gastil and Peter Levine (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005).
• Wates, Nick, The Community Planning Handbook (London: Earthscan, 2000).

How-to: Public meetings

• King, Cheryl, Kathryn M. Feltey, and Bridget O'Neill Susel, "The Question of Participation: Toward Authentic Public Participation in Public Administration," Public Administration Review 58, 1998.
• Toronto Healthy City Office, "We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This," City of Toronto, May 1998.

How-to: Tracking outcomes

• Epstein, Paul, Paul Coates, and Lyle Wray, with David Swain, Results That Matter (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006).
• Greenwood, Davydd, and Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).
• Sarkar, Dibya, "Government at the Grass Roots," Government E-Business, September 2001.

Issues -- crime prevention and policing

• Eig, Jonatha, "Eyes on the Street: Community Policing in Chicago," The American Prospect 29, November-December 1996.
• Hill, James, "For Black Cops, Trust Hard to Gain: Diversity Doesn't Close Credibility Gap," Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1999.
• Hurley, Dan, "On Crime as Science (A Neighbor at a Time)," The New York Times, January 6, 2004.
• Piscia, Jason, "Police Focus on Neighborhood Involvement," Springfield State Journal-Register, March 28, 2004.
• Sampson, R.J., S.W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls, "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime," Science 277, 1997.
• Sampson, R.J., "What 'Community' Supplies," in Urban Problems and Community Development, edited by R.F. Ferguson and W.T. Dickens (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1999).
• "Seeking a Deli Truce," Buffalo News, July 8, 2003.

Issues -- criminal justice and corrections

• DiMascio, William, Seeking Justice: Crime and Punishment in America (New York: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, 1997).
• Leighninger, Matt, "Balancing Justice' in Oklahoma: Involving the Full Community in the Criminal Justice Dialogue," Community Corrections Report, 1997.
• Nieto, Marcus, "Community Correction Punishments: An Alternative To Incarceration for Nonviolent Offenders," California Research Board, California State Library, May 1996.
• "Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs," Human Rights Watch, 2000.

Issues -- immigration

• Booth, William, "One Nation, Indivisible: Is it History?" The Washington Post, February 22, 1998.
• Bramson, Ruth Ann, and Matt Leighninger, "Engaging the Community in Productive Public Conversations about Immigration," International Journal of Economic Development 5:4, 2004.
• "Ethnic Diversity Grows, But Not Immigration," Christian Science Monitor, March 14, 2001.

Issues -- planning and land use

• Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Planning Together: How (and How Not) to Engage Stakeholders in Charting a Course (Cambridge, MA: The Art and Science of Community Problem-Solving Project at Harvard University, 2003).
• Cunningham, Kiran, and Hannah McKinney, "Creating Systemic Change: Convening the Community for Land Use Action," Practicing Anthropology 25(4):9-14, 2003.
• Fisher, Marc, "It May Be a Sign: Foes of Growth Protest Too Much," The Washington Post, August 31, 2000.
• Gurwitt, Rob, "The Casparados," Preservation, November-December 2000.
• Husock, Howard, "Let's Break Up the Big Cities," City Journal, Winter 1998.
• Rose, Kalima, "Beyond Gentrification: Tools for Equitable Development," Shelterforce Online, May-June 2001.

Issues -- poverty

• Eisenberg, Pablo, "Time to Remove the Rose-Colored Glasses," Shelterforce Online, March-April 2000.
• Knitzer, Jane, and Fida Adely, "The Role of Community Development Corporations in Promoting the Well-Being of Young Children," Report to the National Center on Children in Poverty, 2002.
• Mott, Andrew, "Twenty-Five Years of Building Power and Capacity," Shelterforce Online, March-April 2000.
• Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty (Toronto: Free Press, 1969).
• Pitcoff, Winton, "EZ'er Said Than Done," Shelterforce Online, July-August 2000.
• Schorr, Lisbeth, Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America (New York: Doubleday, 1997).
• Solomon, Lewis D., In God We Trust? Faith-Based Organizations and the Quest to Solve America's Social Ills (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003).
• Stone, Rebecca, and Benjamin Butler, "Core Issues in Comprehensive Community-Building Initiatives: Exploring Power and Race," Report to the Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2000.
• Traynor, William, "Community Building: Hope and Caution," Shelterforce Online, September-October 1995.
• Traynor, William, "Reflections on Community Organizing and Resident Engagement in the Rebuilding Communities Initiative," Report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2002.

Issues -- public finance

• Benest, Frank, "Engaging Citizens in the Bottom Line," American City and County, December 1997.
• Chernick, Howard, and Andrew Reschovsky, Lost in the Balance: How State Policies Affect the Fiscal Health of Cities (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2001).
• Flintoft, Jessica, "Participatory Budgeting," Report to the Hewlett Foundation, May 21, 2004.
• "Public Space Management in Downtown Eugene," , captured June 20, 2005.
• Simonsen, Bill, and Mark D. Robbins, "The Benefit Equity Principle and Willingness to Pay for City Services," Public Budgeting & Finance, Summer 1999.
• Weeks, Edward C., "The Practice of Deliberative Democracy: Results from Four Large-Scale Trials," Public Administration Review 60, July-August 2000.

Issues -- public health

• Bernier, Roger, and Karen Midthun, "Getting the Science Right and Doing the Right Science in Vaccine Safety," American Journal of Public Health, June 2004.
• "Citizen Voices on Pandemic Flu Choices," Report of the Public Engagement Pilot Project on Pandemic Influenza, 2005.
• Pinney, Ellen, "Oregon Health Plan: Boon or Bust?" Alternatives, Winter 1997.
• Seeman, Bruce Taylor, "Texas Flu Researchers Test 'Herd Immunity' Theory," Newhouse News Service, October 26, 2004.
• Wong, Peter, "State of Health Care Troubles Oregon's Ex-governor," The Statesman-Journal, July 18, 2004.

Issues -- race and difference

• Benhabib, Seyla, ed., Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996).
• Dalton, Harlon L., Racial Healing (New York: Doubleday, 1995).
• DuBois, Paul, and Jonathan Hutson, Bridging the Racial Divide: A Report on Interracial Dialogue in America (Brattleboro, VT: Center for Living Democracy, 1997).
• DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903).
• Fanselow, Julie, Springfield, Illinois: Where Conversations About Race Foster Understanding and Action (Pomfret, CT: Paul J. Aicher Foundation, 2004).
• Flavin-McDonald, Catherine, Damon Higgins, Jennifer Necci Dineen, Martha L. McCoy, and Ruth Sokolowski, Study Circles on Racism and Race Relations Year 1-1997: A Report on the Focus Groups (Pomfret, CT: Study Circles Resource Center, 1998).
• Hendrie, Caroline, "In U.S. Schools, Race Still Counts," EdWeek, January 21, 2004.
• Losen, Daniel J., and Gary Orfield, "Racial Inequity in Special Education," Harvard Education Press, 2002.
• McCoy, Martha, and Robert Sherman, "Bridging the Divides of Race and Ethnicity," National Civic Review, Spring-Summer 1994.
• Potapchuk, Maggie, Steps Toward an Inclusive Community (Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies, 2001).
• President's Initiative on Race, Pathways to One America in the 21st Century: Promising Practices for Racial Reconciliation (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1999).
• Reichler, Patricia, and Polly B. Dredge, Governing Diverse Communities: A Focus on Race and Ethnic Relations (Washington DC: National League of Cities, 1997).
• Tatum, Beverly Daniels, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

Issues -- regional development

• Barnes, William, and Larry Ledebur, The New Regional Economies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).
• Barnes, William, "Beyond Federal Urban Policy," Urban Affairs Review 41:3, January 2006.
• Blackwell, Angela Glover, "Building Policy from the Ground Up: Regionalism, Equitable Development, and Developing New Leaders," National Civic Review, Spring 2005.
• Garreau, Joel, Edge City (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
• Johnson, William, "Revitalization and Equity in a Weak-Market City," Speech to the Community Development Partnership Network, Atlanta, Georgia, May 5, 2004.
• Liu, Lara Becker, "State of the City' to Sound Warning," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 1, 2004.
• Melville, John, Joe Brooks, Doug Henton, and John Parr, Inclusive Stewardship: Emerging Collaborations Between Neighborhoods and Regions (Denver, CO: Alliance for Regional Stewardship, 2003).
• Moe, Richard, and Carter Wilkie, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl (New York: Henry Holt, 1997).
• Paget, Karen, "Can Cities Escape Political Isolation?" The American Prospect 9:36, 1998.
• Parr, John, "Chattanooga: The Sustainable City," in Boundary Crossers: Case Studies of How Ten of America's Metropolitan Regions Work, edited by Bruce Adams and John Parr (College Park, MD: Academy of Leadership, 1998).
• Rusk, David, Cities Without Suburbs (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993).
• Swope, Christopher, "After the Mall: Suburbia Discovers Main Street," Governing, October 2002.

Issues -- schools and education

• Berman, Sheldon H., "Teaching Civics: A Call to Action," Principal Leadership, September 2004.
• Borut, Donald, Anne Bryant, and Paul Houston, "Conflict or Consensus? Why Collaboration Between Cities and Schools Is the Key to Reform," EdWeek, September 21, 2005.
• "Chicago Local School Councils Run Short of Candidates," IASB School Board News Bulletin, April, 2004.
• Comer, James, "Parent Participation in the Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, February 1986.
• "Conducting School Report Night," Rhode Island Department of Education, School Accountability for Learning and Teaching (SALT) Leadership Team, 1997.
• Elmore, R.F., Building a New Structure for School Leadership (Washington, DC: Albert Shanker Institute, 2000).
• "Engaging Public Support for Teachers' Professional Development," National Education Association Foundation for the Improvement of Education, 2000.
• Epstein, Joyce, and Lori Connors, Trust Fund: School, Family and Community Partnerships in High Schools (Boston, MA: Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning, 1992).
• Fanselow, Julie, Kansas City, Kansas: Where Neighborhood Voices Lead to Better Solutions (Pomfret, CT: Paul J. Aicher Foundation, 2004).
• Fanselow, Julie, Vermont: Where Deep-rooted Democratic Traditions Open the Way for Study Circles (Pomfret, CT: Paul J. Aicher Foundation, 2005).
• Gambone, Michelle Alberti, Adena M. Klem, William P. Moore, and Jean Ann Summers, First Things First: Creating the Conditions and Capacity for Community-wide Reform in an Urban School District (Philadelphia: Gambone & Associates, January 2002).
• Hamilton, Mary, "Focus for Success," Public Administration Times, November 2003.
• Hansen, Marc, "School Board vs. The World," Des Moines Register, July 16, 2005.
• Kimpton, Jeffrey S., and Jonathan Considine, "The Tough Sledding of District-led Engagement," School Administrator, September 1999.
• Kimpton, Jeffrey, and Marcia Sharp, "Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change," Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 1998.
• Kleinz, Karen, "Engaging the Public in the Public Schools," Focus on Study Circles, Spring 2000.
• Leighninger, Matt, "Marrying Citizens and Educators in Decision Making," School Administrator, October 2005.
• Leighninger, Matt, "Working with the Public on Big Decisions," School Administrator, November 2003.
• Leverett, Larry, "Warriors to Advance Equity: An Argument for Distributing Leadership," Spotlight on Student Success, 2002.
• Mathews, David, Is There a Public for the Public Schools? (Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation, 1997).
• Meier, Deborah, "The Road to Trust," American School Board Journal, September 2003.
• Molland, Judy, "Parents Are Going Beyond Bake Sales to Help Support Public Education," Parenthood.com, January 2004.
• Moore, Donald R., and Gail Merritt, Chicago's Local School Councils: What the Research Says (Chicago: Designs for Change, 2002).
• Nagda, Biren, "Description of Inglewood, California," Report to the Study Circles Best Practices Project, 2000.
• Pan, Diane, and Sue Mutchler, "Calling the Roll: Study Circles for Better Schools," Report of the Southwest Education Development Laboratory, 2000.
• Paulson, Amanda, "Chicago Hope: Maybe This Will Work," Christian Science Monitor, September 21, 2004.
• Puriefoy, Wendy, "Linking Communities and Effective Learning Environments," Voices in Urban Education, Fall 2003.
• Puriefoy, Wendy, "Why the Public is Losing Faith in the 'No Child' Law," EdWeek, June 8, 2005.
• Resnick, Michael, Communities Count: A School Board Guide to Public Engagement (Alexandria, VA: National School Boards Association, 2000).
• Schenkat, Randy, Quality Connections: Transforming Schools Through Total Quality Management (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1993).
• Sullivan, Elizabeth, Civil Society and School Accountability (New York: NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2003).
• Useem, Elizabeth, "From the Margins to the Center of School Reform: A Look at the Work of Local Education Funds in Seventeen Communities," Public Education Network Research Series Number 1, 1999.
• Voke, Heather, "Engaging the Public in its Schools," Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, July 2002.
• Wagner, Tony, How Schools Change (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994).

Issues -- youth development

• Carlson, Cindy, "A Rightful Place: Expanding the Role of Young People in a Democratic Society," The Good Society vol. 13, no. 2, 2004.
• "Reaching Across Boundaries: Talk to Create Change," Southern Poverty Law Center and the Study Circles Resource Center, 2003.

Legal frameworks

• McCoy, Martha, Biren Nagda, and Molly Barrett, "Mix It Up: Crossing Social Boundaries as a Pathway to Youth Civic Engagement," National Civic Review, April 2006.

Media coverage of projects

• "'Banding' idea has merit," Springfield State Journal-Register, July 2, 2004.
• Armon, Rick, "Time to ID Your Sector," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 9, 2003.
• Barabas, Jason, "Going Beyond the 'Up or Down' Vote: Research Sheds New Light on Public Deliberation," Report to the Pew Charitable Trusts, 2001.
• Becker, Lara, "Neighborhood Groups Redefine Power," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 7, 2000.
• Becker, Lara, "Neighbors Program Takes Stock of Itself," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 22, 1999.
• Bolinski, Jayette, "Black Guardians Complaint Seeks Outside Investigation," Springfield State Journal-Register, April 20, 2004.
• Bolinski, Jayette, "Police Review Board Negotiated," Springfield State Journal-Register, May 5, 2004.
• Boxer-Macomber, Lauri, "Too Much Sun?: Emerging Challenges Presented by California and Federal Open Meeting Legislation to Public Policy Consensus-Build," Report to the Center for Collaborative Policy, September 2003.
• Brown, Randy, "City-County Cooperation: Let's Not Just Talk About It," The Wichita Eagle, January 11, 1998.
• Bruce, Iain, ed., tr., The Porto Alegre Alternative: Direct Democracy in Action (Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2004).
• Buedel, Matt, "Diversity overshadows hate: Focus on celebration as Hale speech passes with little incident," Springfield State Journal-Register, July 15, 2001.
• Cross, Jim, "County OKs Plan to Cut Trash Flow," The Wichita Eagle, October 23, 1997.
• Fernandez, Manny, "Sounding Off on City Problems," The Washington Post, November 16, 2003.
• Fooksman, Leon, "Village Foundation to Cease Operations," Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, July 16, 2004.
• Helfand, Duke, "Inglewood Writes the Book on Success," Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2000.
• Kernek, Lisa, "Circles Aimed at Bringing City Around on Race Relations," Springfield State Journal-Register, July 8, 1999.
• Malick, Amy, "An Interview with Sandy Robinson II," Focus on Study Circles, Fall 1999.
• Mee, Katie, "MAD DADS Fix Homes for Elderly Owners," The Palm Beach Post, May 16, 2001.
• Meyer, Meghan, "Delray Agency's Director Resigns," The Palm Beach Post, April 22, 2003.
• Meyer, Meghan, "Foundation Accepts Delray Activist's Resignation," The Palm Beach Post, April 24, 2003.
• Parker, Betty, "Dunbar Dream Almost Reality," Fort Myers News-Press, November 24, 1999.
• Parnes, Amie, "MAD DADS Succeed: Delray Group Patrols Streets," Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, February 7, 1999.
• Robbins, Jefferson, "Study Group Offers Ideas to Boost Local Race Relations," Springfield State Journal-Register, June 17, 1998.
• Roe, Myrne, "Story is Best Told by Citizens," The Wichita Eagle, February 26, 1997.
• Roy, Bill, "County Says it is Ready to Pay for Recycling Bins: Local Companies Sought to Reimburse the County's Expenses," The Wichita Eagle, April 30, 1997.
• San, Bob, "Jane Addams School for Democracy Honors New U.S. Citizens," Hmong Times, June 1, 2002.
• Solomon, Lois, "Group Proposes an Academy for Underprivileged Students," Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, May 11, 1999.
• Zapler, Mike, "Is San José Blighted?" San José Mercury News, August 10, 2002.

Neighborhoods

• Briggs, Xavier de Souza, and E.R. Mueller, From Neighborhood to Community (New York: Community Development Research Center, New School for Social Research, 1997).
• Chupp, Mark, "Investing in People through Place: The Role of Social Capital in Transforming Neighborhoods," Report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 1999.
• Cooper, Terry L., and Pradeep Chandra Kathi, "Neighborhood Councils and City Agencies: A Model of Collaborative Coproduction," National Civic Review 93, 2004.
• Frazier, Frances, Gloria Mengual, and Matt Leighninger, Using Democratic Principles to Initiate and Build Neighborhood Revitalization Efforts (Washington, DC: NeighborWorks America, 2005).
• Greene, Robert, "Grasping for the Ring of Power," LA Weekly, June 30, 2005.
• Greene, Robert, "Not In My Neighborhood Council: What Can Save L.A.'s Broken Neighborhood Councils?" LA Weekly, August 25 - September 2, 2004.
• Kretzmann, John P., and John L. McKnight. Building Communities from the Inside Out (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 1993).
• Kubisch, Anne C., Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton, Voices From the Field II: Reflections on Comprehensive Community Change (Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 2002).
• Kubisch, Anne C., "Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Lessons in Neighborhood Transformation," Shelterforce Online, January-February 1996.
• Lord, Frank, "How SoDo Saved Itself," Hartford Courant, August 3, 2003.
• "Neighborhood Councils' Accomplishments," City of Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, ., May 27, 2005.
• Thomson, Ken, "Los Angeles Participation: The Vision and the Reality," Civic Engagement Through Neighborhood Empowerment: The L.A. Experiment and Beyond, Conference of the Neighborhood Participation, January 25, 2002.
• Thomson, Ken, Neighborhood to Nation (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001).
• Vogel, Carl, "Open for Business," The Neighborhood Works 20:1, January-February 1997.

Online

• Beierle, Thomas C., "Democracy On-Line: An Evaluation of the National Dialogue on Public Involvement in EPA Decisions," Resource for the Future, January 2002.
• Bonner, Patricia, Bob Carlitz, Laurie Maak, Rosemary Gunn, and Charles Ratliff, "Bringing the Public and the Government Together through Online Dialogues," in Deliberative Democracy Handbook, edited by John Gastil and Peter Levine (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005).
• Citizens and Government in a Digital Era (Ottawa, Ontario: Ekos Associates, 2003).
• Delli Carpini, Michael, and Scott Keeter, "The Internet and an Informed Citizenry," in The Civic Web, edited by David Anderson and Michael Cornfield (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

Permanent structures

• Berry, Jeffrey, Kent Portney, and Ken Thomson, The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1993).
• Cresswell, Sydney, Jordan Wishy, and Terrence Maxwell, "Fostering Social Equity and Economic Opportunity Through Citizen Participation," Report to the National League of Cities, June 2003.
• Fanselow, Julie, Kuna, Idaho: Where a Community Pulls Together to Face Growth (Pomfret, CT: Paul J. Aicher Foundation, 2004).
• Fung, Archon, and Erik Olin Wright, "Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance," Politics & Society 29:1, March 2001.
• Fung, Archon, "Deliberation Where You Least Expect It: Citizen Participation in Government," Connections, Fall 2003.
• Fung, Archon, Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
• Fung, Archon, "Recipes for Public Spheres: Eight Institutional Design Choices and Their Consequences," Journal of Political Philosophy 11:3, September 2003.
• Fung, Archon, "Varieties of Participation in Democratic Governance," Paper presented at the Theorizing Democratic Renewal conference, Vancouver, B.C., June 10th, 2005.
• Goldman, Joe, "Kuna, Idaho," Report to the Kettering and Hewlett Foundations.
• Leighninger, Matt, "Shared Governance in Communities," Public Organization Review 2:3, September 2002.
• Longo, Nicholas, and John Wallace, "Creating Democratic Spaces: Jane Addams School for Democracy," CURA Reporter, June 2000.
• Mengual, Gloria F., "Portsmouth, N.H.: Where Public Dialogue is a Hallmark of Community Life," http://www.studycircles.org/en/Article.141.aspx
• Post, Margaret, "Building Relational Culture at the Jane Addams School for Democracy," Family Involvement Network of Educators Forum, Harvard Family Research Project, Fall 2002.
• Potapchuk, Bill, Cindy Carlson, and Joan Kennedy, "Growing Governance Deliberatively: Lessons and Inspiration from Hampton, Virginia," in Deliberative Democracy Handbook, edited by John Gastil and Peter Levine (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005).
• Potapchuk, William, "Building an Infrastructure of Community Collaboration," National Civic Review 88:3, Fall 1999.

Public officials

• Bramson, Ruth Ann, "The Deliberative Public Manager: Engaging Citizens in Productive Public Conversations," unpublished manuscript, .
• Burkholder, Steve, "Is Representative Democracy Obsolete?" Listening to Lakewood, December 2004.
• Connecting Citizens and Their Government (Washington, DC: National League of Cities, 1996).
• Gastil, John, and Todd Kelshaw, "Public Meetings: A Sampler of Deliberative Forums That Bring Officeholders and Citizens Together," Kettering Foundation.
• Kelly, Janet M., "The Dilemma of the Unsatisfied Customer in a Market Model of Public Administration," Public Administration Review 65:1, January 2005.
• Leighninger, Matt, "For Next Set of Campaign Issues, Think Locally," Christian Science Monitor, July 13, 2005.
• Osborne, David and Ted Gaebler, Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992).
• Seay, Gregory, "A New Party Sprouts from the Grassroots," The Hartford Courant, November 24, 2005.
• "Speak Up! Engaging Policymakers with Educators and Communities in Deliberative Dialogue," Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, October, 1999.
• Wright, Gwen, Lena Delchad, and Matt Leighninger, The Rise of Democratic Governance (Washington, DC: National League of Cities, 2004).
• Yang, Kaifeng, "Public Administrators' Trust in Citizens: A Missing Link in Citizen Involvement Efforts," Public Administration Review, May-June 2005.

Reports from projects

• "Arkansans Speak Up! On Education," Report to the Arkansas Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education, April 17, 2002.
• Beal, Pamela, and Jacqueline Housel, "Promoting Cooperative Strategies to Reduce Racial Profiling," Report to the U.S. Dept. of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services office, December 2003.
• "Building on the Fruits of our Neighbors," Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Progress Report, 2001.
• Cunningham, Kiran, and Hannah McKinney, "Smarter Growth for Kalamazoo County," , January, 2003.
• Zukovich, Kristi, Community Discussions on Solid Waste (Wichita, KS: Sedgwick County Government, 1996).

Theory

• Barber, Benjamin, A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998).
• Boyte, Harry, "Reframing Democracy: Governance, Civic Agency, and Politics," Public Administration Review 65, 2005.
• Chambers, Simone, "Deliberative Democratic Theory," Annual Review of Political Science 6, 2003.
• Coleman, Stephen, Direct Representation: Towards a Conversational Democracy (London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 2005).
• Dahl, Robert, On Democracy (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1998).
• Eliasoph, Nina, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998).
• Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Democracy on Trial (New York: Basic Books, 1996).
• Fisher, Robert, Let the People Decide (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997).
• Fishkin, James S., Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991).
• Fishkin, James, S., The Voice of the People (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995).
• Flavin, Catherine, and Regina Dougherty, "Science and Citizenship at the National Issues Convention," The Public Perspective 7:3, April-May 1996.
• Fung, Archon, "Deliberation Before the Revolution," Political Theory 33:2, June 2005.
• Gamson, William, "Civic Renewal and Inequality," The Good Society 12:1, 2003.
• Gastil, John, Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision Making, and Communication ( New Society, 1993).
• Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1998).
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