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Volume 10, Issue 1 (2014) Special Issue: State of the Field
This is a special issue that assess the state of our field, celebrates our successes, and calls for future innovative work. The authors are scholars and practitioners who represent the diversity of our field and provide a wide range of perspectives on deliberation, dialogue, participation, and civic life. The ideas from this issue will be discussed at the upcoming Frontiers of Democracy conference, after which the editors will write an "afterword" reflecting on lessons learned.Introductions
The State of Our Field: Introduction to the Special Issue
Laura W. Black, Nancy L. Thomas, and Timothy J. Shaffer PhD
Reflecting on the State of our Field: Challenging our Purpose, Impact, and Potential
Laura W. Black, Timothy J. Shaffer, and Nancy L. Thomas
The Scope of the Field
Why I Study Public Deliberation
John Gastil
A 35-Year Experiment in Public Deliberation
David Mathews
Repairing the Breach: The Power of Dialogue to Heal Relationships and Communities
Robert R. Stains Jr.
What We’re Talking About When We Talk About the “Civic Field” (And why we should clarify what we mean)
Matt Leighninger
Democracy by Design
Nancy L. Thomas
The Next Generation of Our Work
Sandy Heierbacher
Challenges
Public Engagement Exercises with Racial and Cultural “Others”: Some Thoughts, Questions, and Considerations
Yea-Wen Chen
Deliberative Democracy, Public Work, and Civic Agency
Harry C. Boyte
The Unfulfilled Promise of Online Deliberation
Janette Hartz-Karp and Brian Sullivan
A Brief Reflection on the Brazilian Participatory Experience
Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho
Key Challenges Facing the Field of Deliberative Democracy
Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer
Promising Future Directions
The Design of Online Deliberation: Implications for Practice, Theory and Democratic Citizenship
Idit Manosevitch
Deliberation In and Through Higher Education
Timothy J. Shaffer PhD
The Critical Role of Local Centers and Institutes in Advancing Deliberative Democracy
Martin Carcasson Ph.D.
A Path to the Next Form of (Deliberative) Democracy
Patrick L. Scully
The State of the Field in Light of the State of our Democracy: My Democracy Anxiety Closet
Martha McCoy
The Compost of Disagreement: Creating Safe Spaces for Engagement and Action
Michele Holt-Shannon and Bruce L. Mallory