A primer for promoting deliberative democracy and the dynamics of development at the grassroots

Journal of Public Deliberation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Daubon, Ramon ^a  

^a Inter American Foundation   (United States)

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References (8)

1. See, most dramatically, Joseph Stiglitz' Globalization and Its Discontents (WW Norton & Co., 2002)
2. and William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2002).
3. See the history of the Inter American Foundation, at www.IAF.gov.
4. This conceptual and operational notion of "relationship" was defined in H. Saunders, A Public Peace Process; Sustained Dialogue to Transfer Racial and Ethnic Conflicts (St. Martin's Press, NY 1999)
5. and H. Saunders, "A Citizen's Political Process"; Kettering Review Spring 2004.
6. See: R. Daubon, "Dialogue for Development:, in Kettering Review, Spring 2004.
7. Both conversations make the same basic assumptions mentioned above: that the life of the polis is about relationships and that these relationships can change thorough structured conversations. Deliberation presupposes a community coherent enough to deal with a shared problem, even if contentious; sustained dialogue presupposes a level of tension that precludes a collective "we" and compels dealing with the dysfunctional relationship before specific problems can be addressed. See Saunders (2004) op cit.
8. See: Robert. Nisbet, The Quest for Community, Oxford University Press (1990).