Deliberative Democracy, Public Work, and Civic Agency

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This essay locates deliberation and deliberative theory as an important strand in a larger interdisciplinary and political movement, civic agency. The civic agency movement, and its related politics, a politics of civic empowerment, include a set of developing practices and concepts which enhance the capacities of diverse groups of people to work across differences to solve problems, create things of common value, and negotiate a shared democratic way of life. Stirrings of civic agency can be seen in many settings, including efforts to recover the civic purposes and revitalize the civic cultures of institutions such as schools and colleges.

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democracy, politics, civic studies, civic agency, public work, deliberation

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Boyte H., (2014) “Deliberative Democracy, Public Work, and Civic Agency”, Journal of Public Deliberation 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.190

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Harry C. Boyte (Augsburg College)

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