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UPCOMING CONFERENCES

The Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society invites you to a Roundtable Discussion on "Modern Democracy and the New Property"

Location: Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association in Boston, MA (room TBA)
Time: August 29, 2002, 3:30 p.m.

Participants: Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School
Elizabeth Bussiere, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Linda McClain, Hofstra University School of Law
William Treanor, Fordham University School of Law
Stephen Simon, University of Maryland
Chair: Bradley D. Hays, University of Maryland

With the participation of distinguished scholars, who will also be contributing articles to an upcoming print symposium on “Modern Democracy and the New Property” in The Good Society, the roundtable promises to be an intellectually stimulating exchange on the evolution of democracy and how our legal and political conceptions of property will affect democratic practice.

Please direct any questions about this event to Bradley Hays at pegs@gvpt.umd.edu, or (301) 405-7799.

We hope to see you there.

PAST CONFERENCES

Citizen Competence and the Design of Democratic Institutions

Washington, D.C., February 10-11, 1995

Panel I: What is Citizen Competence?

 John Gaventa - "Citizen Knowledge, Citizen Competence, and Democracy Building"

 Robert Lane - "The Joyless Polity: Contributions of Democratic Processes To Ill-Being"

 Karol Soltan - "Citizen Competence"

 Nancy Rosenblum - "Navigating Pluralism: The Democracy of Everyday Life"

 Panel II: How to Study Citizen Competence

 Samuel Popkin - "Causes and Consequences of Citizen Disconnect"

 Alan Kay - "Deliberative Survey Research to Uncover Citizen Competence and Judgement"

 Joe Oppenheimer and Norman Frohlich -"Values, Policies and Citizen Competence: An Experimental Perspective"

 Benjamin Page and Robert Shapiro - "The Rational Public and Beyond"

 Panel III: How to Strengthen Citizen Competence

 Jane Mansbridge -"Does Participation Make Better Citizens"

 Benjamin Barber - "An American Civic Forum: Civil Society Between Market, Individuals and the Political Community"

 Frank Bryan - "Direct Democracy and Civic Competence: The Case of the Town Meeting"

 Harry Boyte - "Beyond Deliberation: Citizenship as Public Work"

 Elizabeth Gerber and Arthur Lupia - "Competitve Campaigns and Citizen Competence in Direct Legislation Elections"

 Panel IV: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Competent Citizens

 James Fishkin - "Bringing Deliberation to Democracy: The British Experiment"
 

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