To develop, implement, and evaluate new democratic processes. Currently engaged in large-scale community dialogues in Fort Collins, Colorado; Eugene, Oregon; Sacramento, California; and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Other larger-scale demonstrations are: Eugene Decisions (a community dialogue about city services and funding), the evaluation of the Governor's Conversation with Oregon (an unprecedented attempt to use a statewide, two-way, narrow-cast television system to involve citizens in the policymaking process), and the year-long Dialogue on the Profession for the International City Management Association. Director of the Urban Laboratory, a collaborative effort with the City of Eugene that combines the resources of the university and the city to accomplish important research and development goals.
