Here are some links that you might find useful or interesting. Some are relevant to the topic of Active Democracy, some are not. If you would like your web-site to be listed on this page, or you want to suggest a link, please contact Lyn Carson.
| 21st Century Dialogue |
21st Century Dialogue is an Australian business, specialising in community engagement that maximises opportunities for inclusiveness and deliberation. It's led by Janette Hartz-Karp (now Associate Professor at Murdoch University) who has convened more deliberative, democratic processes than anyone I know. |
| Brian Martin |
Brian Martin's publications on participatory alternatives to electoral politics. |
| Brisbane Declaration |
The Brisbane Declaration emerged from a conference sponsored by the Queensland Government and the United Nations.
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| Citizen Assembly, British Columbia |
One of the most interesting examples that has been trialled of inclusive deliberation, one that was integrated with parliamentary practices: in British Columbia, Canada in 2005. Unfortunately the site does not discuss the outcomes of the referendum but you can find that elsewhere if you use a search engine. |
| Citizens Initiative Review |
A bold US experiment to integrate a
deliberative design with representative government |
| Citizens' jury handbook |
Citizens' Juries for Natural Resource Management: seeing how they work (by Annie Bolitho for Dept of Sustainability & Environment, Victoria) |
| Citizen Legislature |
What about the possibility of choosing Congress through a process of random selection? Michael Phillips and Ernest Callenbach argue the case for random selection in their book Citizen Legislature. |
| Citizen Science Toolbox |
This site contains a number of useful consultation/participation tools, case studies and an annotated bibliography. |
| Community
Consultation Checklist |
Maintained by Bob Dick--useful for planning |
| Community Engagement, Queensland Government |
Queensland Government (north-east Australian
state) is doing some
interesting consultation work |
| Consensus
Conference |
Australia's first Consensus Conferences (1999) via ABC site |
| Democratic Audit of Australia |
An audit to assess Australia's strengths and weaknesses as a democratic society |
| Deliberative Democracy Consortium |
A US-based network of researchers and practitioners working to strengthen the field of deliberative democracy |
| Dialogue with the City
|
1000 Perth residents gather for a dialogue
about planning |
| Deliberative
Polls |
Australia's
first two deliberative polls. |
| Institute for Sustainable Futures |
Australia's first combined televote and citizens' jury, convened by Institute for Sustainable Futures; check out Volume 3 of Final Report on Container Deposit Legislation |
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International Association
for Public Participation
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International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) |
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International Conference on Engaging Communities |
International Conference on Engaging Communities |
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Jefferson Center
|
a nonprofit organization providing tools for decision makers
to understand what citizens want to do about key issues |
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Learning
Circles Australia
|
where people meet regularly to learn about and discuss issues
of importance to them and society |
| Listening
to the City |
Listening to the City
A large-scale consultation--with 4,300 in the one room! |
| National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) |
A US-based website, fostering a world of conversation, participation and action |
| newRepublic |
Advocating a Citizens Assembly to consider how Australia should progress toward a new republic |
| Loka Institute |
The Loka Institute's page on US Citizens' Panels |
| Parra
Youth Matters |
Australia's (and we believe the world's)
first youth jury to be conducted by young people |
| Planning Cells |
The planning cell (planungszelle ®)
is a German consultation method, originally developed by Peter
Dienel (University of Wuppertal). The planning cell shares some of the attributes
of the US
citizens' juries, designed by Ned Crosby (Jefferson Center).
Both the planning cell and the citizens' jury emerged in the mid 1970s. |
| Strategic Questioning |
Handbook on Strategic Questioning by Fran Peavey |
| TAN+N |
Teledemocracy: e-democracy,
televoting and more |
