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Coping With the Cost of Health Care:
What Is The Public Voice?
Video Podcast
"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
Podcasts
David Mathews discusses Education Research
Speaking of Politics Interview
Deliberative Democracy Workshops
Deliberative democratic practices and community decision-making processes have the potential to help democracy work as well as it should and are at the foundation of Kettering’s inquiry. The Deliberative Democracy Workshop (DDW) explores the concept of deliberative democracy and community decision-making around the world, while providing a space for participants to explore the organization of citizens’ political efforts in their home communities.
Participants begin to look at the idea of a deliberative public, exploring the concept and outlining for themselves appropriate ways in which to organize the political work of their home communities. Then, they exchange and learn from each other, by sharing with each other, the challenges they have been facing and the successes they achieved. In doing so, they join a broad multinational network of people engaged in the challenges of deliberative democracy.
DDW is about ‘how’ to recognize and implement deliberative practices and community decision-making processes; it focuses then on putting that into perspective, and exploring ‘why’ things are done the way they are.
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