{"id":2589,"date":"2007-06-12T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/a-more-deliberative-democracy\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T18:33:25","slug":"a-more-deliberative-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/a-more-deliberative-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A More Deliberative Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/06\/12\/democracy\">A More Deliberative Democracy<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nSome educators think they\u2019ve found the perfect metaphor for political deadlock in Washington: university governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversities are renowned for deliberations that take a long, long time,\u201d pointed out Bruce Mallory, provost of the University of New Hampshire. Committees, task forces, the student government, the faculty senate, the board of trustees: Academe is full of representative bodies with mandates that sometimes conflict and competing interests that can lead to contentious disputes, bitter debates and long, drawn-out proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Mallory and others believe that divisive, adversarial politics are also being played out on the national stage, at an unprecedented level of intensity. He is a proponent of what is being called \u201cdeliberative democracy,\u201d a process of informed and civil political discourse that ideally leads to a greater consensus and more rational collective decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: A More Deliberative Democracy Some educators think they\u2019ve found the perfect metaphor for political deadlock in Washington: university governance. \u201cUniversities are renowned for deliberations that take a long, long time,\u201d pointed out Bruce Mallory, provost of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/a-more-deliberative-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}