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New Report re Deliberative Democracy

I just tweeted:

"Democracy may be increasingly global, but it may also be increasingly local." (p. 4) http://snipurl.com/mcqg4

Comment

Comment by John Burik on July 9, 2009 at 11:21am: Deliberative Democracy and Participatory Leadership may be complementary (I couldn't tell from the latter's site whether they were selling software, consulting services, or what). The crux of any of these approaches is their ability to provide adequate (and necessarily accurate) information and elicit honest answers. Otherwise we have the ultimate downside of the Abilene paradox, mentioned in ASG's recent (7/08/09) meeting announcement.

Another important consideration is the context in which the "leadership" occurs. In health care or the economy I want a great deal of participation from stakeholders. In surgery or air travel I want the surgeon or pilot to lead in a much more authoritarian fashion. ;-)

Comment by Elaine Hansen on July 9, 2009 at 9:10am: Hi John - thanks for sharing. This looks very interesting. Right after I saw your post, I received an email from the Art of Hosting with a link to something called Participatory Leadership - I think the 2 compliment each other. What do you think?