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Title Slow democracy : rediscovering community, bringing decision making back home / Susan Clark and Woden Teachout.
Author Clark, Susan.
Publication Info. White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2012.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  321.8 CLA    Check Shelves
Description xxxii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Town halls" from hell, and other stories -- The rise of experts and decline of local decision making -- Communities taking action in a big world -- The time is right -- Cultural cognition and slow democracy -- The promise of local -- Inclusion -- Dialogue and building understanding -- Deliberation -- Power -- The jury, town meeting, and slow democracy -- When advocacy meets slow democracy.
Subject Democracy -- Decision making.
Deliberative democracy.
Added Author Teachout, Woden.
ISBN 9781603584135 (pbk.) : $19.95
1603584137 (pbk.)