- Barber, Benjamin. “Politics as Epistemology,” in Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
- McCoy, M. L. & Scully, P.L. (2002). Deliberative Dialogue to Expand Civic Engagement: What Kind of Talk Does Democracy Need? National Civic Review, 91 (2), 117-135. How to enhance civic engagement using community dialogues. Emphasized is the importance of engaging communities in deliberative dialogue.
- Chapter 9: Pragmatic Action, from Action Research, pp 135-150.
- Willingham, T. L. (2008). Libraries as Civic Agents. Public Library Quarterly, 27(2), 97-110.
- Parker, J. & Duignan, P. (2005) Dialogue Methods: A Typology of Community Dialogue Processes.. Good overview on what a community dialogue actually is. It also explains the various dialogue processes.
- Walton, D. (2007). Revitalizing the Public Sphere: The Current System of Discourse and the Need for the Participative Design of Social Action. Systemic Practice & Action Research, 20 (5), 369-386. This article is about how the “public sphere” has become unbalanced with the interests of the media, politicians, and lobbyists, and how a return of the citizen voice in public decision making is needed.
- http://wiki.deliberative-democracy.net/index.php/Summary_Report Summarizes what had been learned since the 2003 convention of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
- National Center for Outreach. Community engagement through public broadcasting. “Helping stations strengthen civic life and deepen their local significance.”
- University of California Berkeley School of Law. 2048 project: Humanity’s written agreement to live together. “2048 is a project within the Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. A process for individuals, organizations and governments to draft an international framework for human rights that can be enforced in the courts of all countries.
- University of Kansas Community Tool Box. Leading A community dialogue on building a healthy community. Retrieved 10/20, 2008, fromhttp://ctb.ku.edu/tools//sub_section_main_1052.htm. Advice on how to conduct a community dialogue.
- 40N 88W (Champaign County Arts, Culture and Entertainment Council). (2006). “Big.small.all.champaign county” FALL WORKSHOP. Retrieved 10/24, 2008, fromhttp://www.40north.org/news/?m=200609. “big.small.all.champaign county started with a series of community dialogue meetings last November. These brought together 681 participants from a wide cross section of the population and from all parts of the County. 2,222 ideas were collected providing a strong foundation for development of a vision, community goals and an action plan..”
- WEFT Champaign 90.1 FM. Retrieved 10/24, 2008, from http://weft.org/ local radio station and venue for community dialogues.
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