Hello

I'm Amy Lang, a sociologist who studies public deliberation. I'm just
finishing up my dissertation which is a qualitative case study of the
British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. I'm also
developing a case comparison with the recent Ontario Citizens'
Assembly. Among other things, I'm writing about the ways that
organizational set ups shape the substance of deliberation, how
deliberating groups choose which dimensions of a problem to
foreground, and what kinds of civic skills and understandings citizen
deliberators take away from the experience of deliberation.

I also am a blog editor for the National Coalition for Dialogue &
Deliberation, so if anyone has any news they'd like to post, please
feel free to send it to me: alang (at) ssc (dot) wisc (dot) edu.
Looking forward to being part of this group!

Amy