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Facilitators: the micropolitics of public participation and deliberation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Most of the forms of public participation explored throughout this Handbook are supported by a range of practitioners whose work is often rendered invisible in the study of democratic innovations. Facilitators are key agents at the frontline of current democratic practices.
openaire   +1 more source

Evaluation of Dried Plasma Spot‐Based Quantification of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein as a Disease‐Associated Biomarker in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) measured in dried plasma spots versus conventional plasma‐ and serum‐GFAP testing for assessment of disease severity in aquaporin‐4 immunoglobulin G–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4‐IgG+ NMOSD).
Felix Wohlrab   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Deliberation’s Content: A Coding Scheme

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2007
This paper details a content analysis scheme to measure the quality of political deliberation in face-to-face and online groups. Much of deliberation research studies the outcomes of deliberation, but there has been a lack of analysis of what groups ...
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
doaj   +2 more sources

Review of The Professionalization of Public Participation edited by Laurence Bherer, Mario Gauthier, and Louis Simard (New York: Routledge, 2017) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of The Professionalization of Public Participation edited by Laurence Bherer, Mario Gauthier, and Louis Simard (New York: Routledge, 2017)
Christensen, Helen E, Christensen, H
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Variations of Institutional Design for Empowered Deliberation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper lays out the practical and theoretical characteristics of formally empowered deliberation as a distinctive subset of deliberative processes.
Johnson, Carolina   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Australia, 2010–2022: A Population‐Based Study Using Linked National Administrative Health Data

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenous inflammatory condition with widely varying global prevalence estimates. The frequency of SLE in the general population of Australia has been reported to be notably lower than contemporary estimates in countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, at 19 to 39 per 100,000 as opposed ...
Lucinda Roper   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative Deliberation? On Storytelling as a Necessary Component of Public Deliberation

open access: yesPolítica y Sociedad, 2016
This paper deals with the place of narrative, that is, storytelling, in public deliberation. A distinction is made between weak and strong conceptions of narrative. According to the weak one, storytelling is but one rhetorical device among others with which social actors produce and convey meaning.
openaire   +3 more sources

Disagreement and Consensus: The Need for Dynamic Updating in Public Deliberation

open access: yes, 2005
This analysis compares a consensus-oriented procedure, Princeton Future, with a more adversarial procedure, the public meetings of the Princeton, N.J. borough council, organized as public hearings.
Karpowitz, Christopher F.   +1 more
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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere

open access: yesCoRR
Online comment sections, such as those on news sites or social media, have the potential to foster informal public deliberation, However, this potential is often undermined by the frequency of toxic or low-quality exchanges that occur in these settings.
Manon Revel   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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