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Barber, Benjamin. 1984. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fischer, Frank. 1990. Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

________. 2000. Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge. Durham: Duke University Press.

________. 2009. Democracy & Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry. New York: Oxford University Press.

Frank, Robert. 1988. Passion within Reason. New York: W. W. Norton.

Gutman, Amy. 1987. Democratic Education. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

________. 2003. Identity in Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Gutman, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 2004. Why Deliberative Democracy? Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Nussbaum, Martha C. 1994. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

________. 2001. Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Percy, Stephen L., Nancy L. Zimpher, and Mary Jane Brukardt. 2006. Creating a New Kind of University: Institutionalizing Community-University Engagement. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc.

New Directions in Civic Engagement: University Avenue Meets Main Street, Pew Partnership