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Daniel Stid: Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: 8 Working Hypotheses
The civic renewal we need is not primarily political or governmental, but rather, cultural. While Federal governance is still in a shambles, cultural change at the local and state levels promises a healthier democracy.
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Kenneth Boulding's First Law: If It Exists (or Has Been Done), It Must Be Possible
Reflections on the vital role played by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the fraught relationship between those organizations and governmental sources of support.
Colleague Activities
American Bar Association's Corerstones of Democracy Conversations Guide
The cornerstones are civics, civility, and collaboration, and this conversation guide helps lawyers (and others) as they work to strengthen all three.
Colleague Activities
Healthy Democracy, Healthy People
A new nonpartisan initiative from major public health and civic engagement groups that supports public health professionals and policymakers who are working to advance civic participation and public health.
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National Coalition or Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD)
A network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today's toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice.
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Moving From Ladders of Engagement to Self-Organizing As Decentralized Leadership
A description of a self-organizing strategy for producing a decentralized, non-hierarchical type of engagement and leadership that is better suited to the demands of large and complex societies.
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Tamarack Institute
The Tamarack Institute develops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across Canada and beyond.
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Collaborative for Compassionate Civic Engagement
A team of civic professionals and educators that serves as an advisory board to the Civic Crop. CCCE also designs and administers the Civic Service Skills Workshop.
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The Most Engaged Are The Most Partisan. Now What?
The most educated, most engaged citizens are the most partisan. Today's biggest threat to democracy is a poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion and moralization.
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Between Thick and Thin: Improving Public Engagement through a Wicked Problem Lens
One of the key concepts tied to deliberative engagement is the recognition that many of the issues we must engage in our communities can be best understood as wicked problems
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Fostering Civic Renewal and Building Bridges with Braver Angels
NCDD has consolidated the insights, ideas, and meeting notes from various individuals and groups as they recapped the 2024 Braver Angels Convention
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Democracy Resource Hub
The Hub offers curated tools and connections for democracy practitioners worldwide. Access resources on civic engagement, nonviolent action, peacebuilding, and strategic planning, and joining the global community of dialogue practitioners.
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Exploring Plural Voting as a Method for Citizen Engagement
From New America, this interview is part of a series spotlighting successful stories of co-governance models across rural, urban, and tribal communities.
News and Opinion
Citizen Connect
A non-partisan platform to help Americans find ways to heal our political divides and strengthen our democracy by making it easy to find civic organizations and events of interest to all visitors.
News and Opinion
The dark side of active citizenship
The most politically active citizens are the biggest drivers of destructive polarization -- a fact that suggests that we ought to consider rethinking the norms of civic involvement.