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  • Legislature by Lot

    Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance

    by John Gastil, Erik Olin Wright ...
    Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political classThe gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through “sortition”—the random selection of lay citizens. It’s a concept that has come to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hope for Democracy

    How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics

    by John Gastil, Katherine Knobloch ...
    Concerned citizens across the globe fear that democratic institutions are failing them. Citizens feel shut out of politics and worry that politicians are no longer responsive to their interests. In Hope for Democracy, John Gastil and Katherine R. Knobloch introduce new tools for tamping down hyper-partisanship and placing citizens at the heart of the democratic process. They showcase the Citizens' ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Jury and Democracy

    How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation

    by John Gastil, E. Pierre Deess, Philip J. Weiser, Cindy Simmons ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands of juror surveys, and court and voting records from across the United States, the authors ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Jury and Democracy

    How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation

    by John Gastil, E. Pierre Deess, Philip J. Weiser, Cindy Simmons ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands of juror surveys, and court and voting records from across the United States, the authors ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Gray Matters

    A Novel

    by John Webster Gastil ...
    Can the digital networks that record our footprints hold us steady when dementia threatens to push us off the path? This question has real stakes for data analyst Charlie Sanders. His best hope for a father succumbing to Alzheimer’s comes from assistive technology that Charlie helps design for a scrappy startup. Despite early successes, Charlie has growing doubts about the motives of each of his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Group in Society

    by John W. Gastil ...
    The Group in Society meets the challenges of teaching courses on small groups by revealing the full complexity of small groups and their place in society. It shows students the value of learning how to carefully study a group′s history and context, rather than merely learning a fixed set of group participation skills. This text brings together disparate theories and research (from communication, ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Dungeon Party

    A Novel

    by John Webster Gastil ...
    "...a great story. Gamers will love this tale. If you want to really feel what gaming is about, not to mention what life is about, you should devour it. I did, and I want a sequel. In the meantime, I'll read it again." Ed Greenwood, creator of The Forgotten RealmsDungeon Party links a fantasy world and the people playing in it. When longstanding personality conflicts erupt, the volatile Randall ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Democracy in Motion

    Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement

    Edited by Tina Nabatchi, John Gastil, G. Michael Weiksner, Matt Leighninger ...
    Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement. Organized in a series of chapters that address the big questions of deliberative civic ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

    Edited by Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, Ron Lubensky ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD