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Public Agenda
Public Agenda provides technical support for public engagement
efforts through workshops, research, community conversations
(forums), focus groups, and opinion surveys. Like National Issues
Forums and Study Circles, community conversations are facilitated
discussions generally built around a set of options or "choices" designed
to promote the formation of a shared public judgment through
the process of "deliberation" (weighing the pros and
cons of each).
Public Agenda's approach to public engagement emphasizes:
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Extensive outreach to make sure that activities
include people who do not hold leadership positions and
whose voices are not commonly heard
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Discussions geared to average citizens instead of just
experts
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A civil exchange of ideas among participants without
grandstanding or polemics
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Tolerance for people with different points of view
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Contact information:
Public Agenda
New York, NY.
Phone: 212-686-6610
Will Friedman, Ph.D.
Director of Public Engagement Programs (wfriedman@publicagenda.org)
Visit Public
Agenda's Web site (www.publicagenda.org).
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