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Library: Bibliography

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).
  • Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson, Why Deliberative Democracy? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
  • Haynes, Jeff, Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997).
  • Hibbing, John R., and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Stealth Democracy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
  • Hirst, Paul, Associative Democracy (Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1994).
  • Leighninger, Matt, "Enlisting Citizens: Building Political Legitimacy," National Civic Review, Summer 2002.
  • Leighninger, Matt, "The Seven Deadly Citizens," The Good Society 13:2, 2004.
  • McCoy, Martha, and Patrick Scully, "Deliberative Dialogue to Expand Civic Engagement: What Kind of Talk Does Democracy Need?" National Civic Review, Summer 2002.
  • Miller, David, "Is Deliberative Democracy Unfair to Disadvantaged Groups?" in Democracy as Public Deliberation, edited by Maurizio Passerin D'Entrèves (Manchester, UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2002).
  • Morone, James, The Democratic Wish (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
  • Moy, Patricia, Dietram Scheufele, and Lance Holbert, "Television Use and Social Capital: Testing Putnam's Time Displacement Hypothesis," Mass Communication & Society 21(1/2), 1999.
  • Patterson, Thomas E., The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Vintage Books, 2003).
  • Polletta, Francesca, Freedom is an Endless Meeting (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002).
  • Putnam, Robert, Bowling Alone (New York: Simon & Shuster, 2000).
  • Putnam, Robert, "Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America," Political Science & Politics 28, 1995.
  • Rauch, Jonathan, "Volunteer Nation," National Journal, November 23, 2002.
  • Ryfe, David, "Does Deliberative Democracy Work?" Annual Review of Political Science 8, 2005.
  • Schudson, Michael, "America's Ignorant Voters," Wilson Quarterly 24:2, 2000.
  • Schudson, Michael, The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (New York: The Free Press, 1998).
  • Skocpol, Theda, Diminished Democracy (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).
  • Smith, B.C., "Participation Without Power: Subterfuge or Development?" Community Development Journal, July 1998.
  • Stone, Clarence, Jeffrey Henig, Bryan Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi, Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001).
  • Stone, Clarence, "Civic Capacity and Urban Education," Urban Affairs Review, May 2001.
  • Sunstein, Cass, "The Law of Group Polarization," Journal of Political Philosophy 10, June, 2002.
  • Thompson, Nicola, and Derek R. Bell, "The Deliberative Fix: The Role of Staged Deliberation in a Deliberative Democracy," Paper presented at the Political Studies Association conference, 2004.
  • Walsh, Katherine Cramer, Listening to Difference: Race, Community and the Place of Dialogue in Civic Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
  • Walsh, Katherine Cramer, Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
  • Walsh, Katherine Cramer, "The Democratic Potential of Civic Dialogue," Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2003.
  • Wyman, Miriam, David Shulman, and Laurie Ham, Learning to Engage: Experiences with Civic Engagement in Canada (Ottawa, ON: Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2001).
  • Wyman, Miriam, and David Shulman, From Venting to Inventing (London: The Commonwealth Foundation, 2002).
  • Young, Iris Marion, Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).