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...
by Felipe Rey | Nov 17, 2023 | Big ideas
Read in Spanish 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. Illustration by Andi Lanuza This journey began almost 10...
by Brett Hennig, Cristina Lafont, Samuel Bagg and Sonia Bussu | Feb 21, 2023 | Big ideas
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. Image by Annika Hernandez Debating Sortition kicked off the ‘Democratizing...
by Hendrik Wagenaar, Carolyn M. Hendriks and Selen Ercan | Apr 13, 2021 | Big ideas
The Impact and Ongoing Development of Deliberative Policy Analysis In this roundtable discussion, Selen Ercan invites Hendrik Wagenaar and Carolyn M. Hendriks to revisit the origins of Deliberative Policy Analysis and identify the task ahead for scholars and...
by Cristina Lafont, Jane Mansbridge, Mark Warren and André Bächtiger | Mar 15, 2021 | Big ideas
The Contours of Participatory Democracy in the 21st Century Journal of Deliberative Democracy’s co-editor André Bächtiger challenged Cristina Lafont, Jane Mansbridge and Mark E. Warren to characterise their vision for democracy in the twenty first century and reflect...
by Yago Bermejo Abati and Susan Nakyung Lee | Dec 18, 2020 | Big ideas
The Challenge of Global Deliberative Democracy Global citizens’ assemblies can democratise global governance. But how these assemblies are convened need to be democratised too. Illustration by Alice Mollon In recent years, national and local citizens’ assemblies have...
