Research
Vitae
Publications: Books
Gastil, J. (forthcoming, Spring, 2007. Political communication and deliberation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [pdf preview copy available on request]
Gastil, J., & Levine, P. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2005). The deliberative democracy handbook: Strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Gastil, J. (2000). By popular demand: Revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Gastil, J. (1993). Democracy in small groups: Participation, decision making, and communication. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers.
Publications: Journal Articles (Refereed)
Gall, J., & Gastil, J. (in press). The Magic of Raymond Burr: How jury orientation prepares citizens for jury service. Court Manager.
Gastil, J., Black, L., & Moscovitz, K. (in press). Group and individual differences in deliberative experience: A study of ideology, attitude change, and deliberation in small face-to-face groups. Political Communication.
Gastil, J., & Weiser, P. (in press). Jury service as an invitation to citizenship: Assessing the civic value of institutionalized deliberation. Policy Sciences Journal.
Moy, P., & Gastil, J. (in press). Discussion networks, media use, and deliberative conversation. Political Communication.
Gastil, J. (2006). How balanced discussion shapes knowledge, public perceptions, and attitudes: A case study of deliberation on the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Journal of Public Deliberation, 2. Available at: http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol2/iss1/art4.
Kahan, D., Slovic, P., Braman, D., & Gastil, J. (2006). Fear of democracy: A cultural evaluation of Sunstein on risk. Harvard Law Review, 119, 1071-1109.
Mansbridge, J., Hartz-Karp, J., Amengual, M, & Gastil, J. (2006). Norms of deliberation: An inductive study. Journal of Public Deliberation, 2. Available at: http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol2/iss1/art7.
Sager, K., & Gastil, J. (2006). The origins and consequences of consensus decision making: A test of the social consensus model. Southern Communication Journal, 71, 1-24.
Warnick, B., Xenos, M., Endres, D., & Gastil, J. (2005). Effects of campaign-to-user and text-based interactivity in political candidate campaign websites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3).
Forehand, M., Gastil, J., & Smith, M. A. (2004). Endorsements as voting cues: Heuristic and systematic processing in initiative elections. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 2215-2234.
Burkhalter, S., Gastil, J., & Kelshaw, T. (2002). A conceptual definition and theoretical model of public deliberation in small face-to-face groups. Communication Theory, 12, 398-422.
Gastil, J. (2004). Adult civic education through the National Issues Forums: A study of how adults develop civic skills and dispositions through public deliberation. Adult Education Quarterly, 54, 308-328.
West, M., & Gastil, J. (2004). Deliberation at the margins: Participant accounts of face-to-face public deliberation at the 1999-2000 world trade protests in Seattle and Prague. Qualitative Research Reports, 5, 1-7.
Gastil, J., Deess, E. P., & Weiser, P. (2002). Civic awakening in the jury room: A test of the connection between jury deliberation and political participation. Journal of Politics, 64, 585-595.
Gastil, J., Jenkins-Smith, H., St. Clair, G. (2002). Beyond green chiles and coyotes: The changing shape of New Mexico's political-cultural regions from 1967 to 1997. New Mexico Historical Review, 77, 173-195.
Sager, K. L., & Gastil, J. (2002). Exploring the psychological foundations of democratic group deliberation: Personality factors, confirming interaction, and democratic decision making. Communication Research Reports, 19, 56-65.
Gastil, J. (2000). Thinking, drinking, and driving: Application of the theory of reasoned action to DWI prevention. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Gastil, J. (2000). The political beliefs and orientations of people with disabilities. Social Science Quarterly, 81, 588-603.
Gastil, J., & Dillard, J. P. (1999). The aims, methods, and effects of deliberative civic education through the National Issues Forums. Communication Education, 48, 179-182.
Gastil, J., & Dillard, J. P. (1999). Increasing political sophistication through public deliberation. Political Communication, 16, 3-23.
Sager, K., & Gastil, J. (1999). Reaching consensus on consensus: A study of the relationships between individual decision-making styles and use of the consensus decision-rule. Communication Quarterly, 47, 67-79.
Gastil, J. (1994). A definition and illustration of democratic leadership. Human Relations, 47, 953-975.
Gastil, J. (1994). A meta-analytic review of the productivity and satisfaction of democratic and autocratic leadership. Small Group Research, 25, 384-410.
Gastil, J. (1993). Identifying obstacles to small group democracy. Small Group Research, 24, 5-27.
Gastil, J. (1992). A definition of small group democracy. Small Group Research, 23, 278-301.
Gastil, J. (1992). Undemocratic discourse: A review of theory and research on political discourse. Discourse & Society, 3, 469-500.
Gastil, J. (1992). Why we believe in democracy: Testing theories of attitude functions and democracy. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 22, 423-450.
Gastil, J. (1990). Generic pronouns and sexist language: The oxymoronic character of masculine generics. Sex Roles, 23, 629-643.
Publications: Book Chapters
Gastil, J. (2006). Promoviendo el desarollo de una cultura cívica deliberante: el valor potencial de la deliberación pública para la gestión municipal en Mexico In Leticia Santin and Andrew Selee (eds.), Democracia y Ciudadanía: Participación Ciudadana y Deliberación Pública en Gobiernos Locales Mexicanos (pp. 67-88). Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center. [Translated titles, “Cultivating a deliberative civic culture: The potential value of public deliberation for Mexican municipal governance” in Democracy and Citizenship: Citizen Participation and Public Deliberation in Mexican Local Governments.]Gastil, J. (2005). Communication as Deliberation: A Non-Deliberative Polemic on Communication Theory. In Shepherd, G. J., St. John, J., & Striphas, T. (eds.) Communication As . . . : Stances on Theory (pp. 164-173). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Gastil, J., & Keith, W. (2005). A Nation that (sometimes) likes to talk: A brief history of public deliberation in the United States. In J. Gastil & P. Levine (Eds.). The deliberative democracy handbook: Strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Gastil, J., & Levine, P. (2005). Preface. In J. Gastil & P. Levine (Eds.). The deliberative democracy handbook: Strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., & Gastil, J. (2005). A cultural critique of gun litigation. In T. D. Lytton (Ed.), Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (pp. 105-126). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.Levine, P., Fung, A, & Gastil, J. (2005). Future directions for public deliberation. In J. Gastil & P. Levine (Eds.). The deliberative democracy handbook: Strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Gastil, J. (1997). A definition and illustration of democratic leadership. In K. Grant (Ed.), Leadership (pp. 155-178). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (reprint of earlier article)
Gastil, J. (1994). An appraisal and revision of the constructivist research program. In B. Burleson (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 18 (pp. 83-104). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Jenkins-Smith, H., Gastil, J., Palier, J., Silva, C., & Stevens, L. (1994). A cognitive filtering model of the perceived risk of environmental hazards. In R. Bhada, A. Ghassemi, & T. J. Ward (Eds.), Waste management: From risk to remediation, Vol. 1 (pp. 53-72). Albuquerque, NM: ECM Press.
Publications: Invited Articles, Short Essays, and Book Reviews
Gastil, J. (in press). [Review of the book Politicians Don’t Pander: Politicial Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness]. Contemporary Sociology.
Gastil, J., Smith, M., & Simmons, C. (2001). There’s more than one way to legislate: An integration of representative, direct, and deliberative approaches to democratic governance. University of Colorado Law Review, 72, 1005-1028.
Gastil, J. (2001). [Review of Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions, by Stephen L. Elkin and Karol E. Soltan]. Public Opinion Quarterly, 65, 139-141.
Gastil, J. (2000). Face-to-face citizen deliberation: A luxury or necessity? Political Communication, 17, 357-361.
Gastil, J., & Sapiro, V. (1992). Theory development in political psychology, or the play's the thing. Political Psychology, 13, 129-131.
Gastil, J. (1991). Bringing the war into the classroom. Speech Communication Teacher, 5(4), 1-2.
Gastil, J. (1990). An appeal for constructive dialogue. Latin American Perspectives, 17, 138.
Gastil, J. (1990). The history of democracy [Review of Democracy and its critics]. The Democratic Communique, 9(2), 17.
Publications: Periodical/Newspaper Articles and Letters
Gastil, J. (1996, September 11). The law of negativity. Weekly Alibi.
Gastil, J. (1992, August). Queries on the Quaker peace testimony. Friends' Journal, 14-15.
Gastil, J. (1991, Summer). A call for democratic leadership. Kettering Review, 1-3.
Gastil, J. (1989, November). Quakers lead way in same-sex marriage. New York Times, 22E.
Publications: Research Reports
A selection of reports written by John Gastil with the assistance of other staff at the Institute for Public Policy (Albuquerque, NM).
(1997). New Mexico Technology Assistance Program report on New Mexicans with disabilities.
(1994-1997). Quarterly Profiles 25-34. Ten consecutive brief reports on survey data regarding elections and issues in New Mexico and the nation. Available issues: 1995 (Accuracy and Biases of Electoral Polls) and 1996 (New Mexicans and the "deliberative public").
(1996). 1996 LANL survey: A report on how New Mexicans view affirmative action, community outreach, public involvement, and Lab operations.
(1996). Working Paper on the integration of U.S. government agency programs with the National Issues Forums. Assessed the potential for government agencies to adopt a deliberative discussion format in their education outreach and public involvement programs.
(1996). Through New Mexican eyes: How citizens view the University of New Mexico. Analyzed the ways in which New Mexicans perceive the University of New Mexico's academic performance, admissions standards, and budgetary priorities.
(1996). A Narrative Summary of the September 1996 Focus Groups on WIPP. In addition to providing insight on public attitudes toward WIPP, this report demonstrated the potential for interactive focus groups, wherein policy experts and activists engage in q uestion-and-answer sessions with focus group participants, then participants deliberate upon a policy issue.
(1996). The unfolding WIPP debate in New Mexico: A survey of public attitudes toward science, the EPA, and WIPP. Analyzed the results of a telephone survey on public attitudes toward WIPP and showed how public perceptions of science and the government influence their attitudes toward government projects that involve (1994-1996).
(1995). Understanding public deliberation. Both a philosophical and empirical study of public deliberation. Reviewed pertinent analytic and psychological writings on group decision making and analyzed an on-line forum on political reform and a face-to-fac e forum on juvenile violence.
(1995). Understanding public reaction to the foreign spent nuclear fuel return program: 1994-1995. Analyzed panel public opinion data on the transport of foreign spent nuclear fuel through respondents' communities.
(1995). UNM faculty and staff perceptions of the University. Summarized results of a survey on how University of New Mexico employees views their jobs and the University.
(1995). 1994 Report on public perceptions of the Los Alamos National Laboratories. Examined the role of environmentalism in shaping perceptions of LANL.
(1994). 1994 Vocational rehabilitation needs assessment of New Mexicans with disabilities. Examined the demographics, experiences, and attitudes of New Mexicans with physical and mental disabilities.
Publications: Reports Prepared for the Kettering Foundation (Dayton, OH).
(2002). What does it mean to deliberate? A study of the meaning of deliberation in academic journals and the on-line publications of membership associations. (co-authored with Todd Kelshaw)
(2000). Public meetings: A sampler of deliberative forums that bring officeholders and citizens together. (co-authored with Todd Kelshaw)
(1994). Democratic education and the National Issues Forums.
(1993). Politics in the ivory sticks: The political lives of college students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reports Prepared for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization People's Participation Program:
(1994). Common
problems in small group decision making.
Grants and Appointments: Research
Kahan, D., Cohen, J., Gastil, J. & Slovic, P. (2006). Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program, NSF Award #0621840). Requested funding to conduct experiments on how culture and deliberation shape attitudes. ($282,975).Gastil, J. (2004). Principal Investigator, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund. The grant was used to study the effect of jury participation on electoral turnout in ten counties across the United States ($35,642).
Gastil, J., Deess, E. P., & Weiser, P. (2003). Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences: Law and Social Science Program, NSF Award #0318513). Funding to conduct a longitudinal panel survey examining how jury deliberation changes jurors’ subsequent political attitudes and behaviors. ($176,494).
Kahan, D., & Gastil, J. (2003). Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program). Funding to study political culture and public deliberation on gun control in the United States. ($400,000).
Gastil, J. (2001). Principal Investigator, Kettering Foundation research contract. During 2001, I will explore how the term “deliberation” is being used in popular, foundation, and academic publications. I will also study its meaning and use in one or more particular cases, to see how the term has affected these organizations’ activities ($20,000).
Gastil, J. (1999). Principal Investigator, Kettering Foundation research contract. During 2000, I will examine cases in which elected officials and government agencies have actively promoted public deliberation on substantive issues. ($12,058)
Gastil, J. (1999). Principal Investigator, University of Washington Royalty Research Scholar Fund. During 1999-2000, the grant will be used to study the effect of small group deliberation on ideological constraint ($15,193).
Gastil, J. (1998). Visiting Scholar at the Kettering Foundation. Spent two months at the Foundation completing a book manuscript on political representation and public deliberation ($6,244).
Jenkins-Smith, H., & Gastil, J. (1997). Co-Principal Investigator, New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department. Conducted a series of six public meetings on long-range transportation planning in New Mexico ($70,000).
Jenkins-Smith, H., & Gastil, J. (1997). Co-Principal Investigator, New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Study of the rehabilitation needs and service uses of New Mexicans with disabilities ($57,380).
Gastil, J. (1994). Consultant, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO). Wrote training manual on democratic group facilitation for agricultural co-operative agents working in Africa and Asia ($2,000).
Gastil, J. (1992). Research Consultant, Kettering Foundation. Politics in America. ($700)
Gastil, J. (1992). Researcher, Kettering Foundation. The effects of the National Issues Forums on participants' political communication attitudes and behaviors. ($26,500)
Gastil, J. (1991). Robert G. Chollar Summer Research Assistant, Kettering Foundation. Democratic leadership: A conceptual synthesis of theory and research on democratic and participatory leadership. ($2000)
Gastil, J. (1988). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant. The Meaning of Independence in Cameroon and Nigeria. ($900)
Grants and Appointments: Teaching
Gastil, J., & Wilkerson, J. (2005). Project funding from the University of Washington Technology Gap Innovation Fund to adapt Election Day and LegSim for the Advanced Placement high school classroom ($49,986).Wilkerson, J., & Gastil, J. (2003). Project funding from the William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation to complete the development of two simulation games, LegSim and Election Day. The funding also will be used to design a marketing plan for these games and to set up the University of Washington Educational Simulation Institute, a permanent organization that will promote the use of computer simulation games in college, high school, and middle school ($51,361).
Gastil, J. (2002). Project funding from the Washington Research Foundation to aid the continued development of Election Day, a piece of educational software that simulates elections in the United States. The funding covered the cost of software and book purchases, technical support, and professional consulting ($10,000).
Gastil, J. (2000). Project funding from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. These funds covered the cost of purchasing photo-CDs for use in developing Election Day, a piece of educational software that simulates elections in the United States ($600).
Education
Ph.D. Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994. Dissertation: Democratic Citizenship and the National Issues Forums.
M.A. Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. Thesis: Democratic deliberation: A redefinition of the democratic process and a study of staff meetings at a co-operative workplace, Masters Abstracts, 30-04M (1992), 1114. (University Microfilms No. 1348177)
B.A. High Honors in Political Science (Minor in Economics), Swarthmore College, 1989.
Academic Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington, 2001-present.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, 1999-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Communication, University of Washington, 1998-2001.
Research Manager, Institute for Public Policy, University of New Mexico, 1994-1997.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, etc., Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989-1994.
Courses Taught: Undergraduate
Political Deliberation, Small Group Communication, Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Argumentation and Debate, Public Speaking, Introduction to Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
Courses Taught: Graduate
Political Deliberation, Small Group Communication, Organizational Communication
