Glenn wrote:
A few years ago this was cloaked behind "spin" like
special service district, community engagement,
upscale, and deliberative democracy. As they say,
"the gloves are off."
Dennis Kucinich pointed to the constitutional crisis
last night in the Drexel debates. I think we are in
the midst of part of it here, in the upscale funky
district.
speaking of deliberative democracy, there was an article
about that in today's dp, in reference to penn prez amy
gutmann, who's made that phrase a hallmark of her
administration:
http://tinyurl.com/363kfq
excerpt:
University President Amy Gutmann has built her career as
a political theorist in the field of deliberative
democracy, which emphasizes the political values of
openness, transparency and publicity.
Gutmann has for the most part extended her philosophy to
her administration at Penn, extolling these principles in
her four years as president.
But her refusal to disclose the details behind former
Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson's resignation represents
an outlier in a long trend of openness as an academic and
administrator.
Gutmann's seminal work on deliberative democracy,
Democracy and Disagreement, written with Dennis Thompson
of Harvard University, devotes an entire chapter to the
value of publicity, in which she argues that citizens
should be trusted more than leaders with the information
necessary to make decisions.
Deliberative democracy experts disagree over the degree
to which transparency is appropriate, but Gutmann - who
refused to comment for this article - has stressed that
at least some measures for accountability in
decision-making are necessary.
"For those institutions that cannot function without high
degrees of secrecy, we suggest some institutional devices
to secure either prior or retrospective accountability,"
she wrote in a 1999 essay with Thompson.
Gutmann has stressed before that these principles also
apply to university governance, and when she first
assumed the presidency at Penn, her colleagues said this
academic philosophy would translate well.
"It's part of Penn tradition to have a really open and
deliberative process, but it also feeds into Amy's
background and training," Joann Mitchell, a member of
Gutmann's staff at Princeton and Penn, told The Daily
Princetonian at the time.
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