| Bibliography: | People all over the world aspire to participative democracy.Unfortunately today, due to the escalating complexity of the Information Age, the participative planning and design of any social system, from cities to national health care programs, is too often not feasible.This phenomenon, when coupled to the increasing lack of the ability to engage stakeholders in meaningful and productive dialogue for defining and resolving complex issues, makes participative democracy and ideal that cannot be realized now and in the future, unless we adopt a new approach.We want to engage in dialogue in order to gain understanding and build consesus among stakeholders with diverse interests and perspectives.Learning about the theory, methodology and practice of this form of dialogue is the main objective of this book. |
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