by Marjan Ehsassi and John Gastil | Feb 24, 2025 | Big ideas
Activated Citizenship in Conversation In her new book, Activated Citizenship: the transformative power of citizens’ assemblies, Marjan Ehsassi explores the potential of citizens’ assemblies to address some of the challenges facing contemporary Western democracies. In...
by Iñaki Goñi | Oct 12, 2024 | Big ideas
Read in Spanish Make it make sense: the challenge of data analysis in global deliberation Global Deliberative processes are gaining traction, and they bring with them a fresh set of challenges for design and implementation. Not least is the question of how to...
by Graham Smith and Canning Malkin | Sep 23, 2024 | Big ideas
We need to talk about climate (assemblies): Graham Smith in conversation with Canning Malkin In his latest book, We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis, Graham Smith aims to systematise the latest collective...
by Luiza Jardim and Maria Lucien | Jun 4, 2024 | Big ideas
Inclusive by default: strategies for more inclusive participation In theory, participatory processes offer a meaningful route for everyday people to have more power over decisions that affect their lives. In practice, participation faces challenges in ensuring that...
by Nardine Alnemr, Rob Weymouth and Brian Sullivan | May 12, 2024 | Big ideas
Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: current practices and visions into the future What potential does artificial intelligence have for supporting deliberative democracy? In the second of this two-part series, Nardine Alnemr and Rob Weymouth are joined by software...
by Martina Francesca, Sara Bigi, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Yves Mathieu and Judith Ferrando | Apr 3, 2024 | Big ideas
Introducing the Unheard: from exploitation and oppression to interconnection and regeneration? The topics discussed during deliberative processes often impact the lives of people and nonhuman entities who are not present, and whose voices remain unheard. In the field...
