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A Growing Consensus

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

June 28, 2009

In an article for the Sunday Forum, Robert Cavalier highlights the results and implications of the 2008 Deliberatve Poll on Same-Sex Marriage.

Poll of Voters Finds Support for Same-Sex Marriage

L.A. Johnson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

September 30, 2008

"About 70 percent of a small sampling of Pennsylvania voters surveyed in a recent poll support same-sex marriage or civil unions..."

The Next Page: Same-Sex Marriage -- An Informed Conversation

Robert Cavalier and Tim Dawson

September 21, 2008

Contains a preview of the process and topic for the first statewide deliberative poll on this soical values issue.

Nine Hilltop Communities Unite to Improve Their Neighborshoods

Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

July 16, 2007

"...Pittsburgh's southern "Hilltop" neighborhoods mimic conditions in many city neighborhoods, but a unique intervention has begun."

"Poll Shows Opposition to Bill of Rights"
The TartanOnline
May 1, 2006
Shawn Wertz writes that "The focus of this poll was the proposed Student Bill of Rights, which would codify the prohibition of professors using their courses as a way of sharing personal political views with their students. The results of the poll suggested that the participants had changed their minds after learning about the issues through Campus Conversations."

OnQ Program on Healthcare Deliberative Poll
October 26, 2006
WQED Multimedia's OnQ Magazine aired a special show on healthcare. The program profiled two participants in the local deliberative poll and explored their concerns about healthcare issues, including Medicaid and the uninsured.

"A Boost for Democracy"

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
October 29, 2005
An Op Ed piece by Robert Cavalier describing the ideas behind the newly formed Southwestern Pennsylvania Program for Deliberative Democracy.

"Polling exercise shows influence on voters' opinions"

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 25, 2004
An article by Jack Kelly covering the first example of Deliberative Polling held in the Pittsburgh region.