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Coping With the Cost of Health Care:
What Is The Public Voice?
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"We can improve the conversation and that directly impacts people's lives."
Martin Carcasson
DDEX
Ibtesam, Rhanda Slim
Mideast Network
"In our research, we look at what ideas community leaders have about the role of the public in deliberating issues and forming policy."
Alberto Olivas
"When I'm working with the different Pacific Island communities, I must make sure that their way of being is always respected and regarded."
Moerangi Falaoa
"You can't sustain an urban community without the voice of its citizens."
Louise Spiegel
"Students have more of a sense that 'maybe we can do that, too.'"
Katy Harriger
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David Mathews discusses Education Research
Speaking of Politics Interview
John Dedrick, Vice President & Program Director
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John R. Dedrick is vice president and director of programs at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. He provides direction to the foundation’s programs, including contract research, staff associates, scholars-in-residence, and publications.
Dedrick has a long-standing research interest in the theory and practice of democracy, and he has worked closely with higher education professionals and community-based forum moderators on numerous scholarly and community-based research studies.
Dedrick has written on deliberative politics in
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook
(ed. Gastil and Levine, Jossey Bass, 2005) and in
Deliberation and the Work of Higher Education: Innovations for the Classroom, the Campus and the Community
(ed. Dedrick et. al., Kettering Foundation Press, 2008).
Dedrick serves on the Executive Committee of Deliberative Democracy Consortium and the Ohio Grantmakers Forum’s Public Policy Committee. He also serves as adjunct faculty at Fielding Graduate University, Institute for Social Innovation, where he leads seminars on topics including deliberation, dialogue, and civic engagement.
Dedrick began his work with the Kettering Foundation in 1989 when he served a two-year stint as a research fellow. He was a program officer from 1995 to 2003.
Before joining the staff of Kettering, Dedrick directed the Measuring Citizenship Project at the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University from 1992 to 1994. He also served as a research fellow, visiting lecturer, and teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers.
Dedrick received a BA and MA from the College of William and Mary and a MA and PhD in political science from Rutgers.