Slow democracy
Subtitle: rediscovering community, bringing decision making back home
By: Susan Clark and Woden Teachout
Contributors: Teachout, Woden
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781603584135; 9781603584142
Subjects: Democracy; Decision making; Deliberative democracy
Description: Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect society, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities. This chronicle shows the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems.
Table of contents: title: "Town halls" from hell, and other stories; title: The rise of experts and decline of local decision making; title: Communities taking action in a big world; title: The time is right; title: Cultural cognition and slow democracy; title: The promise of local; title: Inclusion; title: Dialogue and building understanding; title: Deliberation; title: Power; title: The jury, town meeting, and slow democracy; title: When advocacy meets slow democracy.