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Discuss “Polling talk ends semester; MLK Day begins next”

Before the semester ends, the campus will host one last speaker, George Crowley, to discuss deliberative democracy. Then, the first day of classes next semester will bring numerous speakers to Carnegie Mellon to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

On Thursday, Crowley, the co-director of Carnegie Mellon’s Southwestern Pennsylvania Program for Deliberative Democracy, will present the last lecture of the semester, titled “Making Citizen Participation Count: Practical Issues in Local Deliberative Polling.”

Crowley will evaluate the method’s usefulness as a means of public involvement and present the changes that need to be made to the deliberative process for it to become “a tool for strengthening democratic accountability,”...

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