{"id":4154,"date":"2003-02-27T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2003-02-27T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T16:02:03","slug":"civic-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4154","title":{"rendered":"civic work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in an interesting conference call with members of the<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliberative-democracy.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ddc_logo.GIF\" width=\"164\" height=\"33\" border=\"0\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m a bit embarrassed because I haven&#8217;t done any work on it,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m listed as the co-editor of a proposed book that would describe recent<\/p>\n<p>experiments in real-world citizens&#8217; deliberations. The Consortium, meanwhile,<\/p>\n<p>is committed to holding a conference for researchers and practitioners<\/p>\n<p>during 2003. The purpose of today&#8217;s call was to explore the possibility<\/p>\n<p>of using the conference to create the book&#151;by inviting authors to<\/p>\n<p>present preliminary drafts of their chapters. There are potential advantages<\/p>\n<p>to collaboration for both the Consortium and those of us who are working<\/p>\n<p>on the book. <\/p>\n<p>I also met with the two students and two professors who are conducting<\/p>\n<p>a project on journalism, funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kettering.org\">Kettering<\/p>\n<p>Foundation<\/a> (I am Principal Investigator). Their project is to create<\/p>\n<p>a website with material drawn from political theory that&#8217;s of practical<\/p>\n<p>value for working journalists. The more fundamental goal is to explore<\/p>\n<p>ways that political theory could be more useful to journalism, and vice<\/p>\n<p>versa. They have decided to focus for now on two pressing issues: the<\/p>\n<p>role of the press in covering a war; and arguments in favor of conscription.<\/p>\n<p>They are finding more good political theory relevant to the second question,<\/p>\n<p>but more news coverage of the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in an interesting conference call with members of the . Although I&#8217;m a bit embarrassed because I haven&#8217;t done any work on it, I&#8217;m listed as the co-editor of a proposed book that would describe recent experiments in real-world citizens&#8217; deliberations. The Consortium, meanwhile, is committed to holding a conference for researchers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}