Hope for Democracy —— How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics

----- 民主的希望：公民如何将理性带回政治

ISBN: 9780190084523 出版年：2019 页码：241 Gastil, John Knobloch, Katherine Oxford University Press

Hope for Democracy recognizes the primary problems that plague contemporary democracy and offers a solution. It tells the story of one civic innovation, the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), which asks a small group of citizens to analyze a ballot measure and then provide recommendations on that measure for the public to use when voting. It relies on narratives of the civic reformers who developed and implemented the CIR and the citizens who participated in the initial review. Coupled with extensive research, the book uses these stories to describe how the review came into being and what impacts it has on participants and the public.