Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
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品牌: Tom Atlee
基本信息出版社:EVOLVER EDITIONS (2012年8月7日)平装:144页正文语种:英语ISBN:1583945008条形码:9781583945001商品重量:367 gASIN:1583945008您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Beyond elections, public participation, and citizen input, democracy must produce wise public policy—or we're in real trouble. InEmpowering Public Wisdom,lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative and practical ideas for collecting and distilling the wisdom of ordinary people in order to infuse the political process with common sense and provide people with ownership of the process.Empowering Public Wisdomrecognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the very concept of democracy; Atlee advocates the use of "public wisdom," a collective intelligence that can be drawn upon to guide public policy and action. Reaching beyond partisan politics, Atlee explores how a diversity of views can be engaged around public issues in ways that generate a coherent, shared "voice of the people" that takes most or all of the population's perspectives and needs into account. Atlee's core approach is through "citizen deliberative councils," in which a small group of people randomly selected creates a "mini-public" or a microcosm of the larger population. Citizen councils engage in the study of a public issue and make recommendations to public officials and the community, but disband afterward; when a new issue arises, a new council is formed. Ultimately, Atlee aims even higher, suggesting a possible fourth branch of government to better balance our current democratic system. Combining a radical vision with practical solutions,Empowering Public Wisdomprovides a unique and refreshing voice in the political arena.媒体推荐"I am eager to see Tom Atlee's thinking shared very widely. I know of no one who is presenting so encompassing and humane a matrix for understanding the varieties of intelligence we need so urgently today."
—Sherry Ruth Anderson, PhD, co-author ofThe Feminine Face of GodandThe Cultural Creatives
"Tom Atlee is one of the few genuine geniuses I know. His work on co-intelligence holds some of the keys to enabling us to work with the ever-more complex opportunities in human existence."
—Robert Theobald, author ofTurning the CenturyandThe Rapids of Change
"Tom Atlee is a unique soul who is fostering the awakening of our collective wisdom."
—Duane Elgin, author ofVoluntary SimplicityandPromise Ahead
"Tom Atlee's work is an important contribution to the world I want to create."
—Stewart Levine, Esq, author ofGetting to ResolutionandThe Book of Agreement
