Rafael Behr makes the powerful point that once (if) the assisted dying bill becomes law, and before implementation of safeguards & the allowance of the choice to seek an assisted death is formally legalised, there is a space for a citizens jury to explore how the safeguards should be formulated & focussed.

He also rightly suggests this would have been better earlier in the process of deliberation, bu we are where we are.

#CitizensJuries #AssistedDying

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/27/mps-assisted-dying-bill-vote-right-to-die

Imagining #Cymru in 2100:

“Wales can be a utopia place for us all, but first, we need to break down many layers of ingrained age-old systems that do not work for us anymore” - Jai Wei Lee

What is being talked of is a #WellbeingEconomy but 2100 is too late, it has to rapidly progress now!

@NICW #Wales needs to give the #WFGAct independent, statutory legal teeth at a local authority & national level now by utilising participatory democracy #CitizensJuries

https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2024/07/wales-in-2100/ @davidoclubb

New blog article! 🖊️ Martina Trettel from #EURAC wrote about the meaning of citizens' juries in EU projects #LEGITIMULT and #REGROUP! 🇪🇺

She argues that "the CJ model transforms the democratic process into a participatory and accountable courtroom".

👉https://regroup-horizon.eu/blog-democratic-courtroom/

#pandemicpolitics #citizensjuries #citizenjury #minipublic #deliberativedemocracy #covid19research

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@politicaltheory
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@DemocracyClub
@DemocracyMattersALot
@DemocracyNet

New blog post!🖊️
Closing our "Participants Insights Series", this blog brings together the #minipublic feedback and reflects on this unique deliberative experience. 🇪🇺

Immerse yourself with first-hand accounts from participants here: https://regroup-horizon.eu/blog-minipublic/

#regroup #citizensjuries #citizenjury #deliberativedemocracy #horizoneurope #horizoneu

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Read more about our Italian #minipublic and find out how the participants have experienced to participate in a deliberative setting!

Our partner European University Institute in Florence has written an article:
https://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=italian-citizens-provide-policy-recommendations-in-succesful-mini-public&lang=en-GB

As one participant mentions:

“A very immersive experience! ... This experience has taught me a lot!" 🙌

#regroup #pandemicpolitcs #deliberativedemocracy #CitizenAssemblies #citizenjuries #citizensjuries #deliberation

Mini-public video series #1 | Brendan Spillane on #disinformation!

During the #minipublics, we showed videos of 4 scientists sharing knowledge on the main themes.

Brendan, PI at the VIGILANT project, says disinformation is there to raise tensions in society.

Watch the full video here: https://shorturl.at/kyzIL

Read more about the mini-publics here: https://regroup-horizon.eu/publications/minipublic/

#pandemicpolitics #regroup #citizensjuries #deliberativedemocracy

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Across the (developed) world, #citizensjuries have become more common in the last decades.

Having sat (recently) on a trial jury himself, Martin Wolf (FT) is now a convert, arguing that many contentious #political issues wold benefits from the input of a citizen jury.

Certainly, they would start to balance the over-representation of the interests of the wealthy in today's political systems (not least the UK).

They'd be a good for our #democracy but the Q. is who would champion them today?

🥳 Congratulations to
Katie Hirono who passed her PhD viva on Friday with no corrections 🎉

The thesis was examined by Prof. John Boswell (University of Southampton) & Prof Sarah Cunnigham-Burley (University of Edinburgh), and supervised by Dr Ellen Stewart (University of Strathclyde) and I.

All pictured below celebrating in Edinburgh 😀

#demopart
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#CitizensJuries
#HealthImpactAssessments