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John Gastil is a professor of communication at the University of Washington. He is the author of the newly published Political Communication and Deliberation (Sage, 2008), co-editor with Peter Levine of The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Jossey-Bass, 2005). He has also authored By Popular Demand (U California, 2000) and Democracy in Small Groups (New Society, 1993), and various articles on small groups, deliberation, and politics.
My Interest Areas:
group decision making, deliberation, democracy, electoral reform
The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement is dedicated to research, the creation of citizen resources and student-designed learning experiences that develop new areas of positive citizen involvement in politics and social life. The Center's primary focus is to understand how new information technologies can supplement more traditional forms of communication to facilitate new forms of civic engagement.