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Matching Facilitation Methods to Deliberative Purposes
Imagine three groups of people deliberating the same question. All three groups were recruited the same way, they are deliberating in similar rooms, and they have the same materials available. Does it actually matter how the facilitation of these deliberative processes is carried out? Dirk von Schneidemesser, Dorota Stasiak and Daniel Oppold explain why it matters, and how different facilitation styles affect deliberation.
Representation Reset
Felipe Rey reflects on his inspiration and motivations for writing his new book, The Representative System, and its implications for the field of democratic innovations.
Understanding the policy impact of Citizens’ Assemblies: a dispatch from Gdansk
Adela Gąsiorowska unpacks the impacts of Poland’s first Citizens’ Assemblies, arguing that despite the declarations of the city’s authorities and high level of implementation of their recommendations, the actual impact of these processes on public policies was limited.
How representative is it really? A correspondence on sortition
Are proponents of sortition overclaiming? What claims to representativeness can we really make about deliberative mini-publics? This correspondence unpicks some of the key claims and proposes ways forward for representation claims in deliberative practice.
To realise deliberative democracy’s promise, we need to go beyond inclusion
This conversation unpacks the difference between equity and inclusion and how deliberative mini-publics and various forms of public engagement can truly support meaningful and equitable inclusion of diverse voices in policymaking and beyond.
Promoting deliberative journalism: A dispatch from Colorado
How can journalism foster a deliberative mindset? For Martin Carcasson, journalists can reinvigorate their role and expand their impact on their community by situating themselves more in terms of being facilitators of public deliberation.
Fusing representative and deliberative democracy: A dispatch from Brussels
What happens when ordinary citizens are given the power to deliberate alongside members of parliament? Deliberative Committees in Brussels provide a preview of what it means to fuse representative and deliberative democracy.
Debating Sortition
What are the appropriate uses of sortition in contemporary democracies? To what extent can these practices advance democratic transformation? Here are four big ideas.
Getting the Publishing House in Order: Democratising Academic Publishing
In the second of this two-part series, six early career academics offer an agenda for advancing academic practices, particularly in the field of publishing, grounded on the normative commitments of deliberative democracy.
Deliberative democracy in a neoliberal academy
In the first of a two-part series, six early career academics examine the constraints posed by the neoliberal academy in advancing the practice of deliberative democracy.
An honour, an adventure, and the most humbling experience: Facilitating democratic deliberation
The authors of Facilitating Deliberation: A Practical Guide reflect on their reasons for writing a book about deliberation through the lens of facilitators.
Deliberative Democracy in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a region often associated with authoritarian resilience and democratic decline. Baogang He talks to Nicole Curato about the various ways in which Southeast Asian countries have institutionalised mechanisms for deliberative democracy to address complex governance issues.
Call for New Editors – Journal of Deliberative Democracy
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy is pleased to invite expressions of interest for the editorship of the journal. The new editorial team is expected to serve from April 2023 to April 2026. Multi-institutional and multi-country bids are encouraged but not required.
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