Read a summary of major outcomes and impacts of our work or download one of the following reports to learn more about what researchers found in exploring our projects:

• Americans Discuss Social Security (1998)
  • “Deliberative Democracy in Action: Evaluation of Americans Discuss Social Security”, By Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs (Northwestern University)
  • “Americans Discuss Social Security: How Deliberation Affects Public Opinion” By Jason Barabas (Northwestern University)
• Listening to the City (2002)
  • “Listening to the City: Rebuilding at New York’s World Trade Center Site” by Susan Rosegrant (Harvard University)
  • “Policy Made Public: Technologies of Deliberation and Representation in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan” by Monique Girard, Francesca Polletta, and David Stark (Columbia University)
  • “Public Deliberation After 9/11” in Wounded City: The Social Effects of the World Trade Center Attack on New York City” by Francesca Polletta (Columbia University) and Lesley Wood
  • “Facilitating Deliberation Online: What Difference Does It Make?” by Matthias Trenal (Social Science Research Center Berlin)
  • “Facilitation and Inclusive Deliberation” in Online Deliberation: Design, Research and Practice” by Matthias Trenal (Social Science Research Center Berlin)
  • “Is Information Good for Deliberation? Link-Posting in an Online Forum” by Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, and Christopher Anderson (Columbia University)
• Neighborhood Action, Citizen Summit I-IV (1999- 2005)
  • “Enhancing the Prospect For Deliberative Democracy: The AmericaSpeaks Model”, By Maria J. D’Agostino, Richard W. Schwester, Marc Holzer, (Rutgers University)
  • “Neighborhood Action Initiative: Engaging Citizens in Real Change” in The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook By William R. Potapchuk (Community Building Institute)
  • “Results that Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance, and Getting Things Done” by Paul Epstein, Paul Coates, Lyle Wray with David Swain. (Jossey Bass, 2006)
• United Agenda for Children and Youth (2004)
  • “Deliberative Democracy: Effects of Participation on Political Efficacy,” By Tina Nabatchi (Indiana University)
  • “A Process Evaluation for the United Agenda for Children,” By Joanne Carman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
• Unified New Orleans Plan (2005-06)
  • “Citizen Participation in the Unified New Orleans Plan” by Abigail Williamson (Harvard University)
  • “New Orleans Community Congress II: Towards the Next Era of Participatory Democracy” by Patricia Wilson (University of Texas) and Julianna Padgett (Southern University of New Orleans)
  • “Deliberative Democracy in Disaster Recovery: Re-membering New Orleans” by Patricia Wilson (University of Texas)
• Shaping America’s Youth (2006-07)
  • “Community-Based Priorities for Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity in Childhood” in Pediatricts: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics by David McCarron, Ninon Richartz, Steve Brigham, Molly White, Stephen Klein and Samuel Kessel
  • “Civic Engagement: Bringing in the Real Experts, A Commentary on the Shaping America’s Youth Initiative” in Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics by Malka Kopell
• CaliforniaSpeaks (2007)
  • “Public Impacts: Evaluating the Outcomes of the CaliforniaSpeaks Statewide Conversation on Health Care Reform” by AmericaSpeaks
  • “The Difference Deliberation Makes: A Report on the CaliforniaSpeaks Statewide Conversations on Health Care Reform,” by Archon Fung (Harvard University) and Taeku Lee (University of California, Berkeley)
  • “An Assessment of the Impact of CaliforniaSpeaks on Health Care Reform in California,” by Paul Harder (Harder + Company Community Research)
  • “CaliforniaSpeaks and the Evolution of the California Health Reform Debate” by Peter Harbage (Harbage Consulting)
• Our Budget, Our Economy (2010)
  • “The Difference Deliberation Makes: Evaluating the “Our Budget, Our Economy” Public Deliberation” by Kevin Esterling (University of California), Archon Fung (Harvard University) and Taeku Lee (University of California)