Since February of 2017, IF has been working with a technology startup to develop an online civic discussion platform that will be known as USATalk. The goal is to encourage civic discussion in the online environment, an arena in serious need of more thoughtful...
IF Fellow Adolf Gundersen published a piece in the July 2016 edition of PS, a journal about the discipline and teaching of political science. Entitled “Neither Star nor Gypsy: How I Found Happiness Outside of Academia,” the piece (which can be found here...
IF Fellow Adolf Gundersen's brief essay, Neither Star Nor Gypsy: How I Found Happiness Outside of Academia, appears in the July 2016 edition of Political Science & Politics. It is Gundersen's contribution to a seminar on political science PhD's careers outside...
IF’s active collaboration with Inclusive Dubuque, begun in earnest early in 2015, wrapped up this November as the initiative moved into its priority-setting stage. By that time, the collaboration had enabled IF to achieve numerous milestones, some of them unique...
On September 11, IF Fellows Dennis Boyer, Adolf Gundersen, and Pete Shively, along with Wisconsin Coordinator James Schneider and IF Facilitator Donna Weikert, participated in a day-long interactive summit organized by the Madison, Wisconsin-based...
Major Milestone Reached by Inclusive Dubuque Community Dialogue Program By Adolf G. Gundersen, Research Director This past April, IF’s collaboration with Inclusive Dubuque (ID) reached a major milestone when responsibility for train facilitators was handed over...
In December 2014 I.F. launched a partnership with “Inclusive Dubuque” (I.D.), a city-wide, network-based initiative involving upwards of 30 civic groups, major businesses, and institutions of higher learning. I.F.’s principal role will be to train facilitators. ...
Look at recent events in DC, and you’ll find all the proof you are likely to need that civility is a precondition of reasoned discussion. What’s maybe not intuitively obvious is that politics can just as easily work the other way around: thoughtful discussion can...
Whatever their partisan hue, Cheeseheads seem to think that cooperatives are always worth considering as a possible way of organizing things. Southwest Wisconsin alone is home to innumerable cheese and utility co-operatives, while in my hometown of Madison, co-ops...
IF’s public discussions are distinctive, if not wholly unique. This is true in a general way; it’s also true of some of the component features of the IF discussion process that is at their core. General distinguishing features. Three things most clearly...
