{"id":13594,"date":"2014-04-04T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2014-04-04T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:25:02","slug":"frontiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13594","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Democracy Conference, Boston, July 16-18, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Please join\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/\">Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/democracy\">Democracy Imperative<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliberative-democracy.net\/\">Deliberative Democracy Consortium<\/a>\u00a0for:<\/p>\n<p><b>Frontiers of Democracy:\u00a0<\/b><strong>July 16-18, 2014<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>At Tufts University&#8217;s Boston, MA campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Register<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Preliminary Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s on the bus, and where is it going? The state of the civic field<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civic work is proliferating: many different kinds of people, working in different contexts and issue areas, are expanding the ways in which citizens engage with government, community, and each other. It is increasingly clear that growing inequality, social and political fragmentation, and lack of democratic opportunities are undermining our efforts to address public priorities such as health, education, poverty, the environment, and government reform.<\/p>\n<p>But attempts to label the responses \u2013 as \u201ccivic engagement,\u201d \u201ccollaborative governance,\u201d \u201cdeliberative democracy,\u201d or \u201cpublic work\u201d \u2013 or to articulate them as one movement or policy agenda under a heading like \u201ccivic renewal\u201d or \u201cstronger democracy\u201d \u2013 immediately spark debates about substance, strategy, and language.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is clear we have many principles and practices in common, we differ on what we should call this work and where it is headed. In order for \u201coverlapping civic coalitions\u201d* to form, the potential\u00a0 partners would have to work through goals, assumptions, and differences.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Register now<\/a>\u00a0and join us\u00a0July 16-18 for an invigorating, argumentative, civil discussion on the state and future of the civic field.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Frontiers of Democracy website<\/a>\u00a0for more information and a preliminary agenda.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">* Peter Levine,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Are-Ones-Have-Been-Waiting\/dp\/019993942X\/\">\u00a0We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For<\/a>, chapter 7 (\u201cStrategies\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join\u00a0the\u00a0Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, the\u00a0Democracy Imperative, and the\u00a0Deliberative Democracy Consortium\u00a0for: Frontiers of Democracy:\u00a0July 16-18, 2014 At Tufts University&#8217;s Boston, MA campus Register\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0Preliminary Agenda Who\u2019s on the bus, and where is it going? The state of the civic field Civic work is proliferating: many different kinds of people, working in different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-theory","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}