Additional Resources

This page serves as an online library for materials we are collecting to help us explore our new program topic, Practicing Democracy: Seeking Common Ground.

Feel free to email us with your thoughts and ideas about what topics you would like to explore with us.

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Articles:

Heierbacher, Sandy. (2004) Understand the specific concerns of conservatives. From the National Coalition of Dialogue & Deliberation. Click www.thataway.org/?p=1886.

This article is from the Herald-Mail: Civility in Politics an Idea Worth Exploring. www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=239138&format=html

Schudson, Michael. (1999). Good Citizens and Bad History.pdf

Schudson, Michael. (1997). Why Conversation is Not the Soul of Democracy.pdf

Can talking with people who disagree with you can be good mental exercise for the aging brain? From NPR: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126115275.

Is the Internet keeping us from practicing democracy? From the New York Times: "Riders on the Storm" by David Brooks.

Are Americans are fed up with incivility in politics? From USA Today: "Less Civility Seen as Political Disputes Heat Up" by Susan Page.

Books:

Mutz, Diana (2006). Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy. Cambridge University Press. Google book preview at http://books.google.com/books?id=r2i3cog2IXEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mutz+hearing+the+other+side&ei=Avu5S-6cAZTiygS1k8AX&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false.

Video Clips:

Interview with Diana Muntz. How communication effects the political process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz-Ojwioj5M.

Other Resources:

(NEW) Here's a link to more online resourses: www.civilpolitics.org/civpol-resources.html