{"title":"Cities Going to Extra Lengths to Engage Residents in Solar Energy Efforts","authors":"Doug Linkhart","doi":"10.1002/ncr.21298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"80 4","pages":"29-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ncr.21298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arguing About Ebola and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital","authors":"Rachel A. Stohr","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"27 4","pages":"17-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Grassroots Truth and Reconciliation Movements can Further the Fight for Social Justice in U.S. Communities","authors":"Joshua F. J. Inwood","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21277","url":null,"abstract":"Across the United States, people in communities burdened by economic injustice and political marginalization, violence, and longstanding legacies of oppression are turning towards truth and reconciliation commissions as an innovative way to address persistent inequalities. Such commissions have been organized under government auspices in other countries dealing with the aftermath of terrible civil wars and ethnic violence. In the United States, the process is driven from the grass roots rather than by government officials. How does this mechanism actually work in American communities as a form of community organizing for social justice?","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"34 1","pages":"56-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21277","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hard Facts About Soft Costs","authors":"Aaron S. C. Leavy","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"67 3","pages":"30-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21278","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons from the 2016 All-America City Awards Finalists","authors":"Sarah Lipscomb, Aaron S. C. Leavy, Doug Linkhart","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"63 1","pages":"35-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Beyond Our Recent Past","authors":"T. Shaffer","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21283","url":null,"abstract":"Democratic theory, in the words of John Dryzek, took a “strong deliberative turn” in the 1990s (p. 1). What has emerged since that time has been a robust scholarly discussion about deliberative democracy and its theoretical dimensions, as well as the development and recognition of a field of practice that continues to develop. Scholars and practitioners have helped to create robust professional organizations such as the National Issues Forums Institute and National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, as well as an academic journal—the Journal of Public Deliberation—that provide space to think critically about this burgeoning domain. These opportunities, among many others, enable the field of public deliberation to continue to grow in practical and intellectual ways, contributing to what Caroline W. Lee in Do-It-Yourself Democracy identifies as the “public engagement industry.” Others, such as Peter Levine, have integrated public deliberation into a broader approach to civic life referred to in academic circles as civic studies. In his book, We Are the One’s We Have Been Waiting For, Levine noted the importance of opportunities to understand factual information about issues, to wrestle with diverse values, and to formulate strategies for cultivating a sense of shared, public life by asking all citizens to consider the question, What should you and I do?","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"31 1","pages":"3-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}