Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics

by Josh Lerner

Book Overview

Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.

Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026872
• ISBN13: 9780262026871
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher