Recommended Reading

Book Review - The Next Form of Democracy...

The Next Form of Democracy –
How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance….and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same
Reviewed by Betsy McBride

Author: Matt Leighninger
Vanderbilt University Press
www.VanderbiltUniversityPress.com

www.deliberative-democracy.net

This excellent book is available through the Virginia Beach Library system.

Leighninger, Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and Senior Associate of Study Circles Resource Center, writes from deep experience about communities reinventing the relationship between citizens and their government.

U. S. Senator Bill Bradley wrote in the Forward: “In this book, Leighninger chronicles a movement that is still too new to have a name (although groups like the National League of Cities refer to it as ‘democratic governance’). The phenomenon – which is taking shape across the country in many different ways – is fueled by the notion that public life is too important to be left solely to the professionals.”

Recommended Reading List

List of Civic Engagement and Libraries Recommended Reading
By Nancy Kranich, Civic Librarian
Past President, American Library Association
March 2008

Baldwin, Michael. (October 15, 2002). “Can Libraries Save Democracy?” Library Journal, 127, # 17 (October 15, 2002).
Barber, Benjamin. (2003). Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy in an Age of Interdependence. New York: Norton.
Barber, Benjamin. (1998). A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Strong. New York: Hill and Wang.
Barber, Benjamin. (1984). Strong Democracy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Bellah, Robert, et. al. (1991). The Good Citizen. New York: Knopf
Bellah, Robert, et. al. (1985, updated 1996). Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Updated Edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Boyte, Harry & Kari, Nancy. (1996). Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Boyte, Harry. (1989). Commonwealth: A Return to Citizen Politics. New York: The Free Press.
Boyte, Harry. (2004). Everyday Politics: The Power of Public Work. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
Boyte, Harry & Evans, Sarah. (1986). Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America. New York: Harper and Row.
Boyte, Harry. (2004). Going Public: Academics and Public Life. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation. http://www.kettering.org/Foundation_Publications/Publication2/PublicChoice-H-Boyte.pdf
Durrance, Joan. Pettigrew, Karen., M. Jourdan, &,K. Scheuerer. (2001). “Libraries and Civil Society,” in Libraries and Democracy: the Cornerstones of Liberty. Chicago, IL: American Library Association: 49-59.
Elkin, Stephen L. and Karol Edward Soltan, eds., (1999). Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U. Press.
Fishkin, James. (1995). The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.
Fishkin, James. (1997). Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.
Gagnon, Paul. (Sept. 2003). Educating Democracy: State Standards to Ensure a Civic Core. Washington, DC: Albert Shanker Institute. http://www.shankerinstitute.org/Downloads/gagnon/contents.html
Gastil, John and Peter Levine. (2005). The Deliberative Democracy Handbook. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Harvard School of Public Health–MetLife Foundation, Initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement. (2004). Reinventing Aging: Babyboomers and Civic Engagement, Cambridge, MA: Center for Health Communication. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/reinventingaging/Report.pdf
Harwood Institute. (2003). Making It Real: How to Make Civic Engagement a Public Sensibility. Bethesda, MD: The Harwood Institute.
Harwood, Richard. (2005). Hope Unraveled: The Peoples Retreat and Our Way Back. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
Henton, Douglas, John Melville, & Kim Walesh. (2004). Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America's Communities. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Herzig, Maggie and Laura Chasin. (2006). Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts and Bolts Guide from the Public Conversations Project. Watertown, MA: Public Conversations Project.
Kranich, Nancy, Michele Reid and Taylor Willingham. (July/August, 2004). “Civic Engagement and Academic Libraries,” College and Research Libraries News, 65, #4: 380-383, 388, 393. Downloadable text available at: http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
Kranich, Nancy. (March/April 2006). “The Civic Mission of School Libraries,” Knowledge Quest, vol. 34, #4,: 10-17,
Kranich, Nancy. (Winter 2005). “Civic Partnerships: The Role of Libraries in Promoting Civic Engagement,” in “Creative Collaborations: Libraries Within Their Institutions and Beyond,” Resource Sharing and Information Networks 17, # 1 & 2. Downloadable text available at: http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
Kranich, Nancy. (Ed.) (2001). Libraries and Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Kranich, Nancy. (November 15, 2001). “Libraries Create Social Capital,” Library Journal 126, #19 (November 15, 2001): 40-41. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA180511.html
Kranich, Nancy, Anne Heanue and Taylor Willingham. (January 2003) “Libraries—Public Forums for Today’s Critical Issues,” American Libraries, 34, #1: 68-70. Downloadable text available at: http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
Kranich, Nancy. (October 2004). “Promoting Civic Engagement through the Campus Library,” Friends of Libraries USA (FOLUSA) Newsletter 27, # 5: 9, 11. Downloadable text available at: http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
League of Women Voters. (2005). “Citizens Building Communities: The ABCs of Public Dialogue.” Washington, DC: League of Women Voters.
Leib, Ethan J. (2004). Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press.
Lukensmeyer, Carolyn J. and Lars Hasselblad Torres. (2006). Deliberation: A Manager’s Guide to Public Engagement. Washington, DC: IBM Center for the Business of Government. http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/LukensmeyerReport.pdf
Lukas, Carol & Linda Hoskins. (2003). Conducting Community Forums: Engaging Citizens, Mobilizing Communities. St. Paul, MN: Wilder Center for Communities.
Matthews, David. (1999). Politics for People, 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Mathews, David. & McAfee, Noelle. (2001). Making Choices Together: The Power of Public Deliberation. Dayton, OH: Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
McCabe, Ronald. (2001). Civic Librarianship: Renewing the Social Mission of the Public Library. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
McConnell, Brian. (1999). Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
McCook, Kathleen. (2000). A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building. Chicago: American Library Association.
Milner, Henry. (2002). Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Molz, R. Kathleen & Dain, Phyllis. (1999). Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mutz, Diana. (2006). Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy, Cambridge.
Pennsylvania State University Public Broadcasting. (2002). Digital Alliances--Partnerships in Public Service: Models for Collaboration. (Washington, DC: Benton Foundation. http://www.benton.org/publibrary/partners/pips.pdf
Putnam, Robert D., Lewis M. Feldstein, with Don Cohen. (2003). Better Together: Restoring the American Community, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Putnam, Robert. (December 2000). Better Together: The Report of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Kennedy School of Government.
Putnam, Robert. (2000). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Putnam, Robert. (February 11, 2002). “Bowling Together,” The American Prospect 13 #3: 20-22.
Saunders, Harold H. (1999). Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Schudson, Michael. (1998). The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. New York: Free Press.
Schull, Diantha. (2004). “The Civic Library: A Model for 21st Century Participation,” Advances in Librarianship, vol 28: 55-82.
Sirianni, Carmen & Lewis Friedland. (2001). Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Skocpol, Theda. (2003). Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Skocpol, Theda & Morris Fiorina, eds. (1999). Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Washington, DC: Brookings/Russell Sage.
Study Circles Resource Center. (2001). Organizing Community-wide Dialogue for Action and Change: A Step-by-step Guide. Pomfret, CT: Study Circles Resource Center. http://www.studycircles.org//en/Resource.39.aspx
Verba, Sydney, Kay Lehman Scholzman, & Henry Brady. (1995). Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Williams, Terry Tempest. (2004). The Open Space of Democracy. Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Orion Books.
Willingham, Taylor. (2008). “Libraries as Civic Agents,” Public Libraries, forthcoming 2008.
Yankelovich, Daniel. (1991). Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Yankelovich, Daniel. (1999). The Magic of Dialogue. New York: Simon and Schuster.