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Walsh, Katherine. "Deliberation and Difference: The Contributions of Civic Dialogue" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60867_index.html>

Walsh, K. , 2004-09-02 "Deliberation and Difference: The Contributions of Civic Dialogue" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60867_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Heterogeneous democracies face the challenge of respecting differences while pursuing the good of the whole. Although deliberative democracy has been posed as a way to achieve this, serious doubts remain. In this paper, I investigate the prospects of a particular form of communication to attend to diversity while upholding unity. My focus is on city-wide dialogue programs on race and ethnic relations that are currently used throughout the United States. Their unique focus on perspectives, power and inequality make these programs especially likely to strike a balance between unity and diversity. I examine the practice of civic dialogue programs through survey studies of people doing dialogue in two cities, participant observation, and in-depth interviews with practitioners, participants, and public officials in 45 cities throughout the United States. By looking at the effects of the dialogue, listening to the way practitioners are using this communication, and observing what takes place within it, this study expands our understanding of the contributions of deliberation to heterogeneous democracies. We see that in practice, civic dialogue is predominantly focused on recognizing and understanding cultural difference. Although there is little attention to unity in the form of consensus or common ground, the way in which people are using dialogue around the United States suggests a revision of our ideas about the place of marginalized voices within the deliberative system.

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