IMAGINING THE ROBUST DELIBERATIVE CITY: - Elevating the Conversations We Need to

The current paper, “Imagining the Robust Deliberative City: Elevating the Conversations We Need to Support Democracy,” offers a forceful argument that our best shot at fostering public judgment and reinvigorating democracy today is to focus on creating strong systems of public deliberation, engagement and participation in the towns and cities where people live their lives and learn to become citiz. [...] 2 Imagining the Robust Deliberative City: Elevating the Conversations We Need to Support Democracy IMAGINING THE ROBUST DELIBERATIVE CITY: Elevating the Conversations We Need to Support Democracy At this point in the ongoing democratic experiments in the United States and around the world, two things have become exceedingly clear: democracy requires high-quality communication, and we do not get cl. [...] In earlier essays, I have discussed the essential resource of “passionate impartiality.”7 The concept is purposefully an oxymoron and points to the necessary but rare ingredient of people or organizations who are passionate about the community, passionate about democracy and its commitments to equality and inclusion and passionate about high-quality information and properly utilized expertise, but. [...] 8 Imagining the Robust Deliberative City: Elevating the Conversations We Need to Support Democracy system at the base of our political conversations provides incentive for communication either to the likeminded choir or to so-called “wedge” voters in the middle. [...] “ The most exciting aspect of the work to build a robust local deliberative system is, as the research and the experience in many communities show, that a positive feedback loop develops." The most exciting aspect of the work to build a robust local deliberative system is, as the research and the experience in many communities show, that a positive feedback loop develops.