{"id":13871,"date":"2014-06-04T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2014-06-04T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:34:57","slug":"frontiers-democracy-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13871","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Democracy conference is taking shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">(Washington, DC) This year&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Frontiers of Democracy<\/a>&#8221; conference will take place on July 16-18, 2014 in Boston, MA. Although the agenda is not completely final, it is now <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/frontiers-2014-agenda\/\">quite detailed,<\/a> involving about 18 plenary or concurrent sessions&#8211;all highly interactive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">In addition to these discussion sessions, there will be some provocative short talks. Signed up to give those are: Ambassador Alan Solomont, the dean of Tisch College; Gloria Rubio-Cortes, president, National Civic League; Josh Lerner, Participatory Budgeting Project; John Gastil, Penn State (communication); Tina Nabatchi, Syracuse University (public administration); Shelby Brown, Executive Administrator, State of Connecticut\u2019s Office of Governmental Accountability; Tim Eatman, Research Director, Imagining America; Sabeel Rahman, Harvard (government and law).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Register here to hold your place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Frontiers of Democracy\u00a0is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/\">Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service<\/a>\u00a0at Tufts University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/democracy\">the Democracy Imperative<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliberative-democracy.net\">Deliberative Democracy Consortium.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) This year&#8217;s &#8220;Frontiers of Democracy&#8221; conference will take place on July 16-18, 2014 in Boston, MA. Although the agenda is not completely final, it is now quite detailed, involving about 18 plenary or concurrent sessions&#8211;all highly interactive. In addition to these discussion sessions, there will be some provocative short talks. Signed up to [&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-13871","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\/13871","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=13871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13890,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}