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Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us to bring the advantages of "slow" to our community decision making. Just as slow food encourages chefs and eaters to become more intimately involved with the production of local food, slow democracy encourages us to govern ourselves locally with processes that are inclusive, deliberative, and citizen powered.Susan Clark and Woden Teachout outline the qualities of real, local decision making and show us the range of ways that communities are breathing new life into participatory democracy around the country. We meet residents who seize back control of their municipal water systems from global corporations, parents who find unique solutions to seemingly divisive school-redistricting issues, and a host of other citizens across the nation who have designed local decision-making systems to solve the problems unique to their area in ways that work best for their communities.Though rooted in the direct participation that defined our nation's early days, slow democracy is not a romantic vision for reigniting the ways of old. Rather, the strategies outlined here are uniquely suited to 21st-century technologies and culture.If our future holds an increased focus on local food, local energy, and local economy, then surely we will need to improve our skills at local governance as well.

Democracy --- Deliberative democracy

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Democracy --- Deliberative democracy --- Political culture --- Representative government and representation

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Deliberative democracy is now an influential approach to the study of democracy and political behaviour. Its key proposition is that, in politics, it is not only power that counts, but good discussions and arguments too. This book examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy. Jürg Steiner presents the main normative controversies in the literature on deliberation, including self-interest, civility and truthfulness. He then summarizes the empirical literature on deliberation and proposes methods by which the level of deliberation can be measured rather than just assumed. Steiner's empirical research is based in the work of various research groups, including experiments with ordinary citizens in the deeply divided societies of Colombia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Belgium, as well as Finland and the European Union. Steiner draws normative implications from a combination of both normative controversies and empirical findings.

Deliberative democracy. --- Démocratie délibérative --- Deliberative democracy --- Démocratie délibérative --- Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Discursive democracy --- Democracy --- Political systems --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states, and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the world's leading deliberative theorists, Deliberative Systems explains the principles of this new approach, which seeks ways of ensuring that a division of deliberative labour in a system nonetheless meets both deliberative and democratic norms. Rather than simply elaborating the theory, the contributors examine the problems of implementation in a real world of competing norms, competing institutions and competing powerful interests. This pioneering book will inspire an exciting new phase of deliberative research, both theoretical and empirical.

Deliberative democracy. --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:35H500 --- Discursive democracy --- Democracy --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Bestuur en samenleving: algemene werken --- Deliberative democracy --- Political science --- Political participation. --- Démocratie délibérative --- Science politique --- Participation politique --- History --- Histoire --- Democracy. --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Political systems --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Political participation. --- Deliberative democracy. --- Decision making --- Political planning --- Participation politique --- Démocratie délibérative --- Prise de décision --- Politique publique --- Citizen participation. --- Citizen participation. --- Participation des citoyens --- Participation des citoyens