Democracy Reinvented

Hollie Russon Gilman served as policy adviser on open government and innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is a fellow at New America and at Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and holds a PhD from Harvard's Department of Government. She has served as faculty at Columbia University and Georgetown University.

Illuminates a method of democratic reconstruction that began in Brazilian cities and has moved to the neighborhoods of Chicago, New York, and Boston. Gilman shows how politicians and citizens can reinvigorate democracy by rekindling their democratic imaginations together."- Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School;"With great empirical rigor, Democracy Reinvented sheds light on a surprising democratic innovation taking place around the world in community centers and church basements that is reinventing the meaning of citizenship, transforming the relationship between government and governed, and teaching us how to create more effective tools for governance. An important and persuasively crafted contribution to the field of both participatory democratic theory and practice."- Beth Simone Noveck, Jerry M. Hultin Global Network Professor, New York University, and Director, The Governance Lab;"Democracy Reinvented pushes past the hype that so often surrounds civic technology and participatory democracy to describe experiments that have actually worked and to give us a larger framework and vocabulary for civic engagement in the digital age. A book for political scientists and political campaigners alike."- Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America;"Civic participation and innovation is occurring through small and larger initiatives all over the United States and around the world through the use of new technology. This timely book offers important insight on this phenomena and reveals its potential and impact."- Merit E. Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University