Journal of Public Deliberation

Board of Editors

Dr. Ted Becker earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1964. He is currently the Auburn Alumni Association Professor of Political Science at Auburn University. In addition to his Ph.D., he is also a lawyer (J.D., Rutgers, 1956). Dr. Becker is a political activist trying to link teledemocracy, direct democracy, and environmental sustainability. He is the author of 12 books, including his latest The Future of Teledemocracy (Praeger 2000) with his co-author, Christa Daryl Slaton.

Dr. Lisa Blomgren Bingham is the Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington. She has visited as a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen Law Faculty (2003), served as a visiting professor of law at UC Hastings College of the Law (2007). A graduate of Smith College (A.B. 1976 magna cum laude with high honors in Greek) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. 1979 with high honors), she has co-edited three books and authored over sixty articles and book chapters on dispute resolution and collaborative governance. Bingham received Association for Conflict Resolution’s Abner Award in 2002 for excellence in research on dispute resolution in public employment, and conference paper awards from the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution (2004), Industrial Relations Research Association (1997, 1998), and International Association for Conflict Management (1994, 2004). With Professor Rosemary O’Leary, she received the Section of Environmental and Natural Resource Administration of the American Society of Public Administration’s Best Book award for The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution (2005). In 2006, she received the Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award from IACM and Harvard Project on Negotiation for research that makes a significant impact on practice. In 2007, she was elected fellow to the National Academy of Public Administration.

Dr. Michael Briand, received his doctorate in political theory from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a Senior Fellow with the Institute on the Common Good at Regis University in Denver. He is also an Associate of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Recently he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the soon-to-be-launched International Journal of Public Participation. In 1988 Dr. Briand organized and conducted the first-ever face-to-face meeting between representatives of the South African government, white conservative critics of the regime, and black opponents of apartheid. The success of the “Williamsburg Conference” is chronicled in his book, Dialogue in Williamsburg: The Turning Point for South Africa? His most recent book-length publication is Practical Politics: Five Principles for a Community That Works (University of Illinois, 1999).

Dr. Frank Bryan earned his Ph.D. from University of Connecticut. He is currently a political scientist at the University of Vermont, known throughout New England both as a humorist and a serious scholar. Among the books he has written are Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works; The Vermont Papers; and The Vermont Owner’s Manual. He has been chosen “one of New England’s leading humorists” by Yankee magazine; and the Boston Globe credited him with writing “one of the most original political analyses ever written about New England.” Nationally his work has drawn the attention of such publications as the New York Times, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times.

Dr. Martín Carcasson earned his Ph.D. in Communication from Texas A&M University. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University and the Director of the CSU Center for Public Deliberation (CPD), which he founded in 2006. The CPD is an affiliate of the National Issues Forum network and a member organization of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. Working in partnerships with local governments, school boards, and community organizations, the CPD is dedicated to enhancing local democracy through improved public communication, community problem solving, and collaborative decision-making. CSU undergraduates as well as community members are trained to serve as impartial conveners, facilitators, and reporters of public forums at CPD workshops, and then host events on a variety of issues throughout the year. For more information, visit the CPD website at www.cpd.colostate.edu.

Dr. Lyn Carson has earned her Ph.D. from Southern Cross University. She is currently an associate professor in applied politics with the United States Studies Centre at The University of Sydney, Australia. With Brian Martin she wrote Random Selection in Politics (Praeger 1999). She has participated in many deliberative projects including Australia's first consensus conference, Australia's first two deliberative polls, a number of citizens' juries, and a combined citizen's panel and televote.

Dr. Vera Shattan Coelho - Dr. Coelho received her Ph.D. in Government and Public Policies from the Campinas State University in 1996. She is a researcher and project coordinator at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) in Sao Paulo, Brazil and taught at the University of Sao Paulo. Her
interests involve new forms of citizen participation, deliberation, and consultation to improve social policies and democracy. She is the author of numerous articles on health policy, pension reform, and citizen-government. She recently edited Pension Reform in Latin America (Getulio Vargas Press, 2003) and co-edited New Democratic Spaces for the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, 2004).

Dr. John Dryzek received his Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. He is currently head of the Social and Political Theory Program at the Australian National University. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Dr. Cynthia Farrar currently serves as Director of Urban Academic Initiatives in the Office of New Haven and State Affairs at Yale University. She also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science. In addition, Dr. Farrar serves as Assistant Vice President for Urban Policy Development in which she is responsible defining Yale University's role in community development.

Dr. Will Friedman obtained his Ph.D. in American government and politics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is executive vice president at Public Agenda, where he founded the organization's public engagement department in 1996. He is also executive director of Public Agenda's Center for Advances in Public Engagement, a new research and field-building initiative. Previously he was associate director of research at Public Agenda and director of policy studies at the Work in American Institute. His recent research on
public engagement and deliberative democracy focuses on practical and theoretical issues of scope, power, framing and deliberative impacts.

Dr. Archon Fung is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research examines the impacts of civic participation, public deliberation, and transparency upon public and private governance. His Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2004) examines two participatory-democratic reform efforts in low-income Chicago neighborhoods. He has published half a dozen books in this field, and his articles on regulation, rights, and participation appear in Politics and Society, Governance, Environmental Management,
American Behavioral Scientist, and Boston Review.

Dr. John Gastil received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. He currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He is the author of Political Communication and Deliberation (Sage, 2008), By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections (University of California, 2000), and Democracy in Small Groups (New Society Publishers, 1993). Also, he co-edited with Peter Levine the Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

Dr. Alison Kadlec is a Senior Public Engagement Research Associate and Associate Director of the Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE) at the nonprofit, non-partisan opinion research and public engagement organization Public Agenda in New York. She works on the management and implementation of Public Agenda's public engagement and opinion research projects. She is active in the development and evaluation of research tools and reports, and in training and evaluation for public engagement projects. Previously, Alison has been a visiting professor and lecturer in the political science departments at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, Baruch College and Hunter College. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, with a focus in political theory. Her fields of interest are democratic theory, modern and contemporary political theory, history of ideas, hermeneutics, and American political thought. Alison is the author of a recent book on the democratic theory of John Dewey titled, "John Dewey's Critical Pragmatism."

Dr. Ethan J. Leib earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2004 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2003. He is Law Clerk to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is author of the book Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government . In September 2005, he will be assistant professor of law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Dr. Peter Levine earned his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1992. He is now a Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. Dr. Levine is also an Associate at the Charles Kettering foundation and Deputy Director of CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He is the author of several books including, most recently, The New Progressive Era: Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Dr. Jane Mansbridge has a PhD from the Gov Dept at Harvard. She is Adams Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her current research includes the relation between coercion and deliberative democracy and innovations in representation. She is the author of BAD and WWLtERA, and editor of BSI and (with Aldon Morris) Oppositional Consciousness.

Dr. Peter Muhlberger - Peter Muhlberger is a Research Associate, Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. He is the intellectual author of the Virtual Agora Project, a National Science Foundation grant project investigating the social and psychological effects of computer-mediated deliberative democracy and community. Prof. Muhlberger's current research interests include: media effects in democratic deliberation, deliberative norms, political agency and identity, rationales for political apathy, ethical reasoning, social capital, and reasoning chains. A selected list of his papers can be found at: http://communityconnections.heinz.cmu.edu/papers

Dr. Tina Nabatchi is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research interests include public management, public policy, and law, particularly in relation to deliberative democracy, collaborative governance, and conflict resolution. Tina is particularly interested in empirical investigations and evaluations that examine the intrinsic and instrumental outcomes of deliberative processes, as well as studies that focus on legitimacy building and the institutionalization of such process in the work of government. Tina has published numerous book chapters and several articles in journals such as Public Administration Review, National Civic Review, The International Journal of Conflict Management, and The International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. She has presented her research at numerous academic and practitioner-based conferences, including the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), the Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA), and the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). Tina holds a B.A. in political science from The American University, a Masters of Public Administration degree from The University of Vermont, and a Ph. D. in Public Affairs from Indiana University.

Dr. Tomas Ohlin earned his Ph.D. in Information Processing, however this did not stop him from becoming an innovative and original thinker about electronic democracy. He is currently working as a "free consultant" on teledemocracy, following a stint with the Ministry of Public Administration in Stockholm. Dr. Ohlin is now retired from Linkoping University on the subject of
Information Systems. He has written three books.

Dr. Francesca Polletta received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1994. She is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California at Irvine. She studies social movements and institutional experiments in democracy. She is also author of Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements and co-editor of Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements.

Dr. Matt Qvortrup - earned his doctorate at Brasenose College, Oxford. He currently serves as Research Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University in Scotland. He has published dozens of papers on policy implementation and written several books. His most recent work is A Comparative Study of Referendums: Government by the People (2002).

Dr.Jonathan Rose earned his Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1993 where he is Associate Professor of Political Studies and Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Democracy. His past
writing has been on mass media, political communication and
federalism. He is the author of Making Pictures in Our Heads:
Government Advertising in Canada (Praeger), co-editor of a book on
federalism and lead author of a simulation book on political negotiation that has been translated into Spanish and French. In 2007, he had the privilege of being the Academic Director of the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform.
His present project is an examination of citizens’ assemblies in British Columbia, Ontario and the Netherlands. The book he is writing with R. Kenneth Carty, Andre Blais, Patrick Founier and Henk VanderKolk will be the first to examine how citizens’ assemblies reason, work and deliberate. From January to July 2008, Jonathan is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Dr. David M. Ryfe begins work as an Associate Professor in the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno in July 2006. He received his Ph.D. in communication from the University of California, San Diego. As a research assistant for the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture, and Politics, and then as a research consultant for the Kettering Foundation, over the last decade he has had a front-row seat to the growth of deliberation in communities across the United States. His previous research includes nearly twenty journal articles and book chapters—many of which examine some facet of the practice of deliberation—as well as a book titled Presidents in Culture: the meaning of presidential communication (Peter Lang, 2005). He is currently conducting an ethnographic study of Community Conversations, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting deliberation in Owensboro, KY.

Dr. Peter Shane directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and
Policy Studies at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. He founded Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS), where he helped to launch the Community Connections Project and is Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded Virtual Agora Project. His research interests include constitutional and administrative law, as well as cyberdemocracy, and he is both editor of and contributor to Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal
Through the Internet (Routledge 2004).

Dr. J. H. Snider received his doctorate in American Government from Northwestern University and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He currently is a research director at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington, DC think tank, where he specializes in media policy. Prior to coming to the New America Foundation he served in the U.S. Senate on the staffs of Senators Wyden and Leahy as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications and Public Policy. Prior to attending graduate school in political science, Snider was active in Vermont politics, serving on the school board in Burlington, Vermont, chairing a task force for Vermont’s Secretary of State on Information and Democracy, and serving on the board of the Vermont Chapter of Common Cause.

Dr.Jennifer Stromer-Galley earned her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her current research focuses on the process and content of citizen political deliberations. She is especially interested in understanding how structure affects deliberation - specifically how different channels for interaction affect the process, content, and outcomes of deliberations.

Dr. Stuart White is the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). His research is in the area of decision making, public policy, resource use and taxation. He has been involved with a number of deliberative designs in Australia. His interests include the use of deliberative methods for decision making in relation to key resource allocation issues and the role of self-interest.