The year in deliberation 2024
Today, the global Citizens’ Assembly Network „Democracy R&D“ published its first annual report on key trends and developments in deliberative democracy and the network.
🔗 Download: https://democracyrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Democracy-RDs-annual-report-2024-FINAL2.pdf
How deliberative is Australian democracy?
Join a conversation with Selen Ercan, Adele Webb, Andrea Carson and Ariadne Vromen on November 19th!
https://events.humanitix.com/how-deliberative-is-australian-democracy
🗞️🤓April newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network including events, publications, deliberative workshops, resources, new initiatives and research projects #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #delibwave #demopart #demoinno
Available here 👉 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;5576002d.2403p
🔖Our new guide to organising #minipublics in policy contexts ⚖️ is out & available #OpenAccess here👉🏽https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376107/9789240081413-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Many thanks 🙌🏽 to everyone who contributed around the world: Editorial Board, consultees, external & internal reviewers, editors & staff at the World Health Organization
🗞️ February newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network, packed with:
events,
training,
new research projects,
job opportunities,
publications,
podcasts
& practical resources
on all things #democracy #participation #demoinno #delibwave
Open access 👉🏼 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;fd47cef6.2402p
🥳 Festive newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network featuring:
training courses,
events,
awards,
publications,
tools/guides,
public contracts,
podcasts
and a PhD scholarship
#democracy #demoinno #demopart #commons #participation #delibwave
Available here 👉🏽👉🏽 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;40162a12.2312p
🎧🎧🎧 Democratic Innovations Podcast Episode 3 now out
How do crises spur democratic innovations?
What can democratic innovation do in times of polycrisis?
Hosted by Roberto Falanga (Universidade de Lisboa) in conversation with Graham Smith (University of Westminster) and myself.
#DemocraticInnovation
#democracy #delibwave
#Polycrisis
📻📻📻 Available here 👉🏼 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jpejTHP7hcUsXYeu0ItsI
Listen to this episode from Democratic Innovations on Spotify. In this episode we focus on the pathways of democratic innovations through the multiple crises that challenge our democracies, starting from the crisis of democracy itself. Together with Prof. Graham Smith and Prof. Oliver Escobar, we interrogate the alleged success of climate assemblies, we discuss the success of new technologies applied to democratic systems, and their impact on citizen participation. Conflicts around the globe help focus on the contribution of democratic innovations to political change, beyond the sought policy improvement.
🗓️🗞️November newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network🤓
featuring events, projects, publications, conferences, announcements and podcasts across the field of democratic innovation
#demopart #delibwave #democracy #demoinno #democraticinnovation
#research
Open access 👉🏽 https://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;d27039b0.2311p
📑 Report of the UK Citizens' Economic Council on the Cost of Living Crisis now out ‼️
It remains unusual to involve citizens via #minipublics in economic policy-making.
This research shows the potential of public deliberation on spending, taxation & public investment👇🏽
📢 Just out 🗞️
October bulletin of the Citizen Participation Network, featuring courses, resources, events and publications at the intersection of participatory/deliberative #democracy and research/ practice
#demopart #delibwave #OpenAccess
Available here 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;db26eab9.2310p
Thorsten Sterk
Citizen Participation