Hope for democracy : how citizens can bring reason back into politics / John Gastil and Katherine Knobloch.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190084561 (ebook) :Subject(s): Deliberative democracy
| Deliberative democracy -- United States -- States | Political planning -- Citizen participation | Political planning -- United States -- States -- Citizen participation | Referendum | Referendum -- United States -- States | Political participation | Political participatin -- United States -- States | Democracy -- Social aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190084523DDC classification: 328.2 LOC classification: JC423 | .G3547 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'Hope for Democracy' recognizes the primary problems that plague contemporary democracy and offers a solution. It tells the story of one civic innovation, the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), which asks a small group of citizens to analyze a ballot measure and then provide recommendations on that measure for the public to use when voting. It relies on narratives of the civic reformers who developed and implemented the CIR and the citizens who participated in the initial review. Coupled with extensive research, the text uses these stories to describe how the review came into being and what impacts it has on participants and the public.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Hope for Democracy' recognizes the primary problems that plague contemporary democracy and offers a solution. It tells the story of one civic innovation, the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), which asks a small group of citizens to analyze a ballot measure and then provide recommendations on that measure for the public to use when voting. It relies on narratives of the civic reformers who developed and implemented the CIR and the citizens who participated in the initial review. Coupled with extensive research, the text uses these stories to describe how the review came into being and what impacts it has on participants and the public.
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