Professor
Communication Arts & Sciences and Political Science Senior Scholar, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy
The Pennsylvania State University
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Video lecture on the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review. This talk shows how my research relates to a bold election reform used in Oregon in 2010.
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my deliberation research
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I
teach small group decision making, political deliberation,
inter-cultural communication, theory development, and public
scholarship in the Penn State University Department of
Communication Arts and Sciences.
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Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement
(Oxford, 2012), a co-edited volume reviewing modern research on the practice of democratic deliberation.
The
Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and
Political Participation (Oxford, 2010). Order directly from
Oxford or at Amazon.com
for as little as $17 new. Such a deal!
The
Group in Society
(Sage, 1010), a review
and synthesis of research on small group behavior across a wide
variety of academic disciplines.
Political
Communication and Deliberation (Sage,
2008), an integration of research on deliberation and political comm.
The
Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Jossey-Bass, 2005),
co-edited with Peter
Levine