An underlying assumption behind the phrase “kitchen table democracy” is that our regular democracy is not working; that we have lost our ability, to sit down together and work things out for the common good.
An underlying assumption behind the phrase “kitchen table democracy” is that our regular democracy is not working; that we have lost our ability, to sit down together and work things out for the common good.
In Summer 2015, Portland State University's Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs (and Kitchen Table Democracy Board member) Dr. Stephen Percy sat down to talk with Metroscape, a publication from PSU's Institute for Metropolitan Studies, about how the university is a "collaborative open space".