The Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, wants to address climate change and other global challenges with citizens'…
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The Federal Chairman of the Young Socialists and Deputy Chairman of the SPD, Kevin Kühnert, wants to open up democracy for citizens' assemblies.
In 2019, an unusual experiment brought 160 randomly selected people together to deliberate on the future of democracy. They were not elected.
Citizens' assemblies are increasingly being convened to address the climate crisis. Here is an overview of the state of play in various countries.
When the Baden-Württemberg state parliament sought to make its own pension scheme more generous in 2017, there was widespread outrage. Then randomly…
The recommendations of the German Citizens' Assembly on Democracy enjoy broad support among the population, shows a recent CIVEY survey.
Brigitte Geißel and Stefan Jung argue for the introduction of "participation councils" at the federal level in a study by the Friedrich Ebert…
In Berlin, the first of several citizens' assemblies was launched in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district in summer 2019. This democracy project was…
Randomly selected citizens' assemblies are becoming a popular instrument of democracy in more and more places. Citizens' assemblies are mushrooming…
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggests taking the Irish example of citizens' assemblies as a model for democracy.
