Hear from a panel of experts discuss a new report from More in Common and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Searching for a New Paradigm: Collective Settings. The report makes the case for reinvigorating civic infrastructure as a complement to existing institutional reform and bridge-building efforts. The panelists will discuss a wide range of scholarship to argue that healthy civic infrastructure – what the report refers to as “collective settings” - exhibits four key features: 1) They are designed with shared governance structures that engage participation across a wide group of stakeholders and make transparent power-sharing agreements; 2) They have institutionalized mechanisms for accountability so that all those affected have a chance to co-create solutions, 3) They feature public relationships that embrace difference; and, 4) They celebrate open-endedness and experimentation. The webinar will dive into the strengths and challenges of institutional reform, bridgebuilding, and collective settings work, to make the case that the democracy field will be better served by strategies that advance all three kinds of paradigms.

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