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Beyond Opinion Polls: Athens Comes to New Haven
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ON A SUNNY SATURDAY THIS PAST JUNE, two hundred randomly selected men and women sat in the classrooms of an ivied hall at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. For several hours they chatted cordially about municipal cooperation, took a survey, and then returned to their lives as homemakers and accountants from New Haven and its surrounding towns here on the timeworn edge of the nation's most affluent state. This annual event, known as the Citizen's Forum, might be the next-generation model for participatory democracy. Or it might just be a mirage of populism projected from the ivory tower.
The Citizen's Forum gathers a representative slice of the regional population each …
