Category: politics
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New at Inside Public Judgment: Starting Where the Public Starts
Friends know that at the Kettering Foundation we recently started a new blog called Inside Public Judgment, devoted to sharing what we are learning about framing issues for public deliberation — a behind-the-scenes look at various aspects of developing issue guides. My latest piece is posted, which outlines some of the false starts we made…
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A New Blog at the Kettering Foundation
Inside Public Judgment is a space where Kettering hopes to share what we learn about how the public comes to judgment on difficult problems. My first post, Starting Points for Deliberative Politics, is live now.
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Building a Different Kind of Political Candidate
I’m in the middle of doing one of my favorite activities, something I’ve been involved in since the late 1990’s. It’s the Candidate Training Program, run by the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. I was a part of the design team for this program and have been involved in different…
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In Praise Of Effort Over Time
A dozen years ago, I was completing my stint leading a national election-ethics project, encouraging candidates to negotiate, sign, and abide by “clean campaign” pledges. It was, as you might imagine, an uphill battle. I was excited when a group in Toledo, Ohio, picked up the idea on their own and pressed for the 2001…
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The GOP Needs A Bill Clinton
The Democratic Leadership Council set out as its project to drag the Democratic Party to the right a tad, and it succeeded. Clinton (a DLC leader) was able to reinvigorate the party’s prospects. The Republican Party could do with a similar, serious movement to drag it a bit left.
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Time For A Conversation
A good friend writes on Facebook: Now is not the time, but sometime soon, while the searing memories are still fresh, we must have a candid conversation about how we all will live in the new world climate change is bringing to us. After a disaster, there is a defiant urge to remake what was…
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Only Divided Because We Think We Are: My Latest Column At Ethics Newsline
As some know, I have begun a monthly column published at Ethics Newsline, the flagship publication for the Institute for Global Ethics and one which I helped develop when I worked at that organization. This month’s column is about recent research that sheds light on just how divided we are — in public vs. in private life. Only…
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The Deal Is Falling Apart: Seven Concerns About The Future
I recently was asked to recap some of the research I have been fortunate to be a part of as it relates to Americans’ concerns when they think about the future. I’ve had a chance to review focus group findings (and conduct a few of my own) for a number of projects over the past…
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Noelle McAfee Interviews Ziad Majed
My good friend Noelle McAfee has just published a very important intereview that she conducted with Lebanese intellectual and activist Ziad Majed. The full interview is here. I urge you in the strongest possible way to read it. Here is one small piece: NM: You know, the velvet revolutions in Eastern Europe varied according to what…
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