{"id":4396,"date":"2004-02-18T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T13:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2004-02-18T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T13:51:44","slug":"deliberation-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"deliberation book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gastil of the University of Washington and I are co-editing a book on deliberative processes. We have the chapter authors lined up and are about to sign a contract. Each chapter will describe a concrete experiment that involves citizens in structured discussions of public issues or problems. A non-exhaustive list of these experiments would include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nifi.org\">National Issues Forums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studycircles.org\/\">Study Circles<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la.utexas.edu\/research\/delpol\/\">Deliberative Polling<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaspeaks.org\">America Speaks <\/a>in the US; several online experiments; and very important non-US cases such as the participatory budging process in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citymayors.com\/report\/oidp1.html\">Porto Allegre<\/a>, Brazil (in which very large citizens&#8217; councils actually allocate a portion of the city&#8217;s budget).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gastil of the University of Washington and I are co-editing a book on deliberative processes. We have the chapter authors lined up and are about to sign a contract. Each chapter will describe a concrete experiment that involves citizens in structured discussions of public issues or problems. A non-exhaustive list of these experiments would [&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-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","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=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}