{"id":4199,"date":"2003-05-14T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2003-05-14T11:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2003-05-14T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2003-05-14T11:13:25","slug":"deliberation-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"deliberation in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just spent a very interesting two days at a conference sponsored<\/p>\n

by the Institute for Philosophy<\/p>\n

& Public Policy<\/a> and the Fundacion Nueva Generacion Argentina on<\/p>\n

the subject of "Deliberative Democracy: Principles and Cases."<\/p>\n

<\/b>Essentially, the conference brought together four groups of experts<\/p>\n

into fruitful dialogue:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The Fundacion sent Argentines who are deeply embroiled in their country’s\n

    convulsive political crisis. <\/li>\n

  2. Innovative grantmakers and aid experts talked about new approaches\n

    to development assistance that help democracy (or good governance) and<\/p>\n

    civil society. <\/li>\n

  3. Practitioners who organize human-scale deliberative experiments (e.g.,\n

    Carolyn Lukensmeyer of America<\/p>\n

    Speaks<\/a>) talked about their work. Also, Gianpaolo Baiocchi contributed<\/p>\n

    ethnographic research on participatory budgeting in Porto Allegre (which<\/p>\n

    is turning into the Mecca for progessive and populist reformers); and<\/p>\n

    Andrew Selee described participatory and deliberative experiments in<\/p>\n

    Mexico. <\/li>\n

  4. Several American theorists and social scientists gave papers on deliberative\n

    democracy. Jane Mansbridge argued for the significance of practice for<\/p>\n

    deliberative theory, drawing some theoretical conclusions about the<\/p>\n

    importance of self-interest and passion. Henry Richardson talked about<\/p>\n

    the corrupting effects of being powerless, and the discipline that comes<\/p>\n

    from having to make practical decisions together. Noelle McAfee distinguished<\/p>\n

    three types of deliberative democracy. And Joel Siegel provided evidence<\/p>\n

    that democracy contributes to economic growth in developing countries.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have just spent a very interesting two days at a conference sponsored by the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy and the Fundacion Nueva Generacion Argentina on the subject of "Deliberative Democracy: Principles and Cases." Essentially, the conference brought together four groups of experts into fruitful dialogue: The Fundacion sent Argentines who are deeply […]<\/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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation","category-democratic-reform-overseas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","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=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}