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Practical Politics: Five Principles for a Community That Works - Softcover

Briand, Michael K.

 
9780252067662: Practical Politics: Five Principles for a Community That Works
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252067665 ISBN 13: 9780252067662
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1999

Synopsis

This wise and sensible guide to practicing democracy will be invaluable to members of community and neighborhood organizations, parent-teacher associations, local government, citizens groups, and other grass-roots organizations. It will also be of interest to anyone wanting a deeper understanding of how democracy should work--and why it often fails to do just that.

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About the Author

Michael Briand is Director of the Ethics and Deliberation Project at CivicEvolution, a not-for-profit educational software developer. He has spent 30 years working, at the levels of both theory and practice, on the challenges of enhancing citizen participation in democratic self-governance, with an emphasis on conflict resolution and high-quality public discourse. He is the author of Practical Politics: Five Principles for a Community that Works (1999) and To Strive, To Seek, To Find: Building a Purpose-Guided Democracy through Ethical Dialogue and Deliberation (2018).

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252067665
ISBN 13 
9780252067662
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
256