Zoomacracy Now!
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For roughly 10 months, local governments have been conducting the public\\u2019s business without actually being in front of the public \\u2014 at least not physically.
Because of the gathering restrictions birthed by the\\xa0COVID-19 pandemic, we\\u2019re now in a \\u201cZoomacracy,\\u201d a phrase coined by our pals over at The New Haven Independent.
The guests: professor Jodie Gil is an associate professor of journalism, and Dr. Jonathan Wharton teaches political science. Together they wrote \\xa0\\u201cOpen Budgetary Meetings Amid a Pandemic: Assessing Connecticut\\u2019s Various Pathways to Public Engagement During\\xa0COVID-19,\\u201d which was recently published in\\xa0THE\\xa0JOURNAL\\xa0OF\\xa0CIVIC\\xa0INFORMATION.
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