Professor Dr. John Gastil of the Pennsylvania State University Department of Communication Arts and Sciences will give a presentation and Webinar entitled Four Glimpses of Democracy’s Future: Deliberative Innovations in India, Brazil, Canada, and the United States, 2 February 2012, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Here is the abstract of the presentation:
While more nations across the globe move toward democratic elections, countries with long histories of electoral democracy now strive to make their systems more deliberative. We welcome you to learn about four of the boldest and most influential innovations in deliberative democracy, each of which finds ways of bringing citizens’ voices more directly into public policy debates by connecting small face-to-face deliberation with larger mass political events. Discover democracy’s widening reach, strengthening citizens’ participation in the public democratic system.
The presentation is hosted by the Centre for Public Involvement.
The presentation is being offered as part of the University of Alberta’s International Week, on the theme of Living Democracy: Citizen Power in a Digital Age.
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