Citizens Initiative Review

Join us for a conversation as part of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy's virtual book club. They are reading Dr. John Gastil and Dr. Katie Knoblach's book "Hope for Democracy" this month. The book is a chronicle of Healthy Democracy's flagship program, the Citizens' Initiative Review, and the decade-long research that has been devoted to it. Join the authors and Healthy Democracy staff on August 31 at 4:00 p.m. ET. RSVP at http://democracy.psu.edu/book.

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Congratulations to one of the primary researchers of the Citizens' Initiative Review for the past decade.

New book by the principle researchers of the Citizens' Initiative Review over the past decade.

Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics 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 hype...

More exposure for the Citizens' Initiative Review in national media. This is clearly a movement whose time has come.

From ancient Athens to the town hall: Can a new wave of deliberative democracy save the world? "Citizens' assemblies" and similar forms of ground-level democracy are suddenly everywhere. Can we all get along?