Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and ...

Graham Smith advises a wide range of organisations and individuals on citizens' assemblies, including various politicians, civil servants, and civil society organisations. A new form of politics is ...

UK museums are asking members of the public to help them define future policy and direction—even encompassing funding ...

A citizens’ assembly on climate change is to meet this autumn as part of a government drive to explore the fastest and fairest ways to cut the UK’s carbon emissions. What is Extinction Rebellion and ...

You’ve all made real progress in addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis — from instituting the use of hotels as temporary housing to securing billions in new funding. But the crisis ...

If you like the idea of juries weighing evidence and delivering verdicts, you might also like the idea of global citizens’ assemblies deliberating over genome editing technology. Both juries and ...

Two members of the Citizens Convention on the End of Life arrive for the group’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, April 3, 2023 (Sipa photo by Raphael ...

You’ve all made real progress in addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis —from instituting the use of hotels as temporary housing to securing billions in new funding. But the crisis ...

Sir David Attenborough has insisted that politicians listen to the recommendations of the first citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis. According to The Guardian, the veteran naturalist and ...

A Citizens’ Assembly is a representative body of citizens who are brought together to discuss and reason together over an issue of public concern before providing a set of recommendations, options, or ...

In 2016 Ireland’s parliament launched an exercise in deliberative democracy called the Citizens’ Assembly. The assembly was composed of a chairperson and 99 citizens selected at random to be ...

SHIRLEY ISLAM has little faith in politics. Elected representatives “are either bickering on TV, or wasting taxpayer money, or trying to sell something,” says the 48-year-old care worker from West ...