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Stages Of Judgment Citizen Court Experiment Report, Courtney Breese
Stages Of Judgment Citizen Court Experiment Report, Courtney Breese
Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration Publications
Over the past several years, the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution and Public Collaboration (MODR) has worked with the Kettering Foundation to establish a Public Policy Institute (PPI) for public deliberation at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In June 2008, the Kettering Foundation invited MODR to join other research partners across the country in a research experiment influenced by Daniel Yankelovich‟s Seven Stages of Public Understanding. The purpose of this experiment is to test how effectively a citizen court process model communicates public opinion on contentious public policy issues to public officials and the media.
MODR agreed to join in …