Harwood partners with Journal of Public Deliberation to share news and information
Monday, April 3, 2006
(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)Starting this week, The Harwood Institute and
the Journal of Public Deliberation
(JPD), an
electronic journal of research,
news, and information for people interested in
dialogue and deliberation, will begin
partnering to share items of interest through
our organizational communications. The purpose
of this partnership is to help bring more
information of interest to our respective
audiences.
The Journal of Public Deliberation
(JPD) is about to start its second year of
publication.It was a convening of leading
researchers and practitioners - sponsored by
Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) in 2002
- where JPD was born. Its first sponsor is the
DDC and original funder was the Hewlett
Foundation. JPD’s Coordinating Editor is Dr.
Ted Becker, a professor of political science at
Auburn University.
The mission of JPD
is simple enough: help synergize the global
deliberative democracy movement. The major
tactic was to develop a free (open access)
online publication that would bring together
the work and efforts of academics and
practitioners in this emerging field and
political transformation movement - and to do
it in a way that also informed and engaged the
public.
JPD has two facets or faces and
two hosts. Its academic side has its own
distinguished Board of Editors which puts all
submitted articles through a rigorous peer
review process. Those that pass muster are
published immediately online. The Journal is
formatted and served by Berkeley Electronic Press as
one of its two "Open Access
Journals."
The academic side also
publishes "essays," which are written by
academics, but are only peer reviewed by the
coordinating editor and essay editor. JPD also
publishes academic quality book reviews and
interviews.
In its first year of
operations, JPD had over 6,000 visitors to the
academic homepage and more than 3,000 downloads
of its articles, essays, book reviews and
interviews.
JPD’s practitioner/public
side can be found at www.auburn.edu/jpd. This aspect
has a more public friendly format and news
stories from around the world about ongoing
evolution and experiments in public
deliberation and deliberative democracy. This
effort is under current development by JPD’s
Managing Editor, Steven N. Pyser, J.D., a
dialogue/deliberation and facilitation expert.
All the essays published on the academic side
are simultaneously published as "Feature
Articles" on the practitioner/public side. They
also are open to do interviews, book reviews,
and even works of relevant fiction on this side
of JPD.
Their plan, as they soon will
begin their second year in May 2006, is to
devote much of the practitioner/public side of
JPD to "Network News." This will include
reports and announcements about major projects,
conferences, books, speaking tours,
experiments, and collaborations worldwide. JPD
foresees this as a portal for one and all into
the world of deliberative democracy and public
deliberation.
JPD welcomes the entire
family of deliberative democracy to use this
exceptional opportunity to come together and
help synergize the dialogue and deliberation
movement.