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.

In this second part of a two-part series, four scholars and practitioners reflect on the implications of the OECD’s latest reports on practicing deliberative democracy outside resource-rich countries.

In the first of a two-part series, deliberative democracy advocates examine the political risks and emerging lessons from the so-called ‘deliberative wave.’

In this conversation, Dan Durrant invites Linus Strothman to explain the power of combining random selection and personal outreach in recruiting participants for deliberative minipublics.

In this dispatch, we examine participatory budgeting’s potential to develop participants’ civic knowledge, skills and attitudes, as well as the conditions that make these impacts possible, based on research from nine countries.

In this Dispatch, we present evidence from over 10 countries on participatory budgeting’s achievements in boosting civic engagement and political participation, especially among traditionally marginalized groups.

When designed well and implemented in favourable contexts, participatory budgeting has a track record of improving local governance and, ultimately, community well-being. In this dispatch, we share some key findings on the impacts of participatory budgeting on governance and well-being, drawing from studies on Brazil, the United States, South Korea and Peru.

Participatory budgeting has been widely celebrated around the world, but its impacts have been uneven. In this Dispatch, we explain a new global theory of change that demonstrates how participatory budgeting can lead to desired outcomes and impacts.