On 23 June 2021, the Scottish Climate Assembly and the country's Children's Parliament had submitted their recommendations on the country's future…
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The "doing mini-publics" project has created a world map of all deliberative mini publics that took place between 1972 and 2019. In total, there were…
How can citizens' assemblies be used as a permanent instrument of democracy? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has…
Classes starting at 9 a.m., a school subject "life skills", compulsory further training for teachers and age-appropriate participation at every…
The European Union (EU) should regularly convene randomly selected citizens' panels to better involve its residents in political decision-making, a…
"Citizens' assemblies must be able to contribute their expertise more often to counteract the segregation of political elites and institutions." This…
Bremen's governing alliance of SPD, Greens and Left Party wants to expand the political participation of citizens in the Hanseatic city with randomly…
The randomly selected Thuringian Citizens' Forum COVID-19 has proposed far-reaching changes in the way the pandemic is handled.
Estonia is not missing out on the global citizens' assembly wave. From 20 November to 5 December 2021, the country held its first randomly selected…
The traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP wants to improve political decision-making at the federal level with randomly selected citizens'…
In recent years, the number of randomly selected citizens' assemblies and similar deliberative processes has increased rapidly worldwide. The…
On 18-19 November 2021, participants from several countries debated citizens' assemblies at the G1000 Autumn School on Deliberative Democracy in…
A popular initiative is underway in Italy to convene a randomly selected climate assembly. The initiators are taking advantage of the recently…
On 16 November 2021, the Mostar City Council decided to implement all 32 recommendations of a citizens' assembly on the topic of “Cleanliness of the…
Amsterdam should plant a new forest and appoint a "climate mayor". These are two of the proposals of a citizens' assembly in which one hundred…
Citizens' assemblies can provide a constructive response to the challenges that plague contemporary representative democracies. This is the tenor of a…
In cooperation with the European Parliament, the Parliament of Montenegro convened a randomly selected Citizens' Assembly for the first time. From 29…
Informed US citizens are in favour of concerted action on climate protection. This is the result of the "America in One Room" project conducted by the…
For the first time, five citizens' assembly experiments took place simultaneously in Brazil in 2021. This involved citizens in political…
In a declaration, members of the first Global Climate Assembly call on countries, governments and people around the world to make every effort to…
In the constituent session of the German Bundestag on 26 October 2021, both the previous Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble, who left office on…
In a new study by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, citizens' assemblies and other deliberation-based participation procedures in the German state of…
The Bavarian municipality of Leupoldsgrün is one of ten planned model municipalities in which citizens' assemblies are convened on the topic of a…
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, a citizens' assembly convened by the city published its recommendations on…
Paris is the world's first major city with a permanent citizens' assembly. This was decided by the city council of the Seine metropolis on 14 October…
The formation of a standing citizens' jury for Jülich is one of the proposals of a randomly selected citzens' jury held in the western German city of…
What would the rules, the constitution, the laws in Austria look like if ordinary people could draft and vote on them themselves? The association…
One week before the Bundestag elections and the state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 2021, the Citizens' Assembly on Education and…
As part of the Conference on the Future of Europe, randomly selected citizens' panels discussed the future of the European Union in order to jointly…
All parties represented in the German Bundestag are in favour of establishing randomly selected citizens' assemblies at the federal level. This is…
Thuringia's Minister of Justice Dirk Adams presented the first results of the randomly selected citizens' forum Covid-19 on 14 September 2021.
The ancient Greeks had an inexpensive technique against corruption, abuse of power and arrogance that also created political equality: sortition. Can…
Martin Coordes and Urte Stahl took part in the German Citizens' Assembly on Democracy in 2019 as randomly selected members.Timo Rieg interviewed them…
Where does the South Tyrolean village of Schenna stand today? And how does the community want to develop in the future? These and similar questions…
Mehr Demokratie asked the Berlin parties about their attitude to randomly selected citizens' assemblies. Here are the answers.
Randomly selected citizens' assemblies can be a means to counter certain dangers of populism, says Swiss political scientist Prof. Nenad Stojanović.
In the discussion about the future of the Düsseldorf Opera, randomly selected citizens presented their ideas on 25 August 2021.
A UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) project in North Macedonia used the citizen assembly model to address high rates of vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of…
Prof. Nenad Stojanovic wants to improve referendums in Switzerland by linking them to citizens' assemblies. He reports on this in the podcast "Mehr…
In order to get more young people interested in local politics, the Danish capital Copenhagen invited young people between 16 and 24 to a citizens'…
Britain's first permanent citizens' assembly in the London Borough of Newham has come up with a number of ideas to improve Newham's green spaces and…
According to a recent survey, 53.9 percent of all Germans are in favour of randomly selected citizens' assemblies at the federal level in Germany.…
What is the future of climate protection in Germany now that the "Citizens' Assembly on Climate" has presented its recommendations? Does our democracy…
Didier Lejeune happens to be a randomly selected member of the permanent citizens' dialogue in the German-speaking Community of East Belgium.…
Sortition is worthy of a prize. The "Franco-German dialogue to strengthen cross-border cooperation in times of Covid-19" is the French winner of the…
Die Broschüre "Losbasierte Bürgerräte in Deutschland - Erfahrungen und Empfehlungen" gibt einen Überblick über Praxis und Erkenntnisse zu zufällig…
Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) would like to see a citizens' assembly for a "really serious debate on Germany's security policy role in…
A citizens' assembly initiated by the population has developed recommendations on climate policy in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.
In France, the attempt to anchor climate protection in the constitution failed on 6 July 2021. The Senate and the National Assembly could not agree on…
In Mechelen, Belgium, a randomly selected citizens' panel looked at how the city can be both a vibrant place and a community where there is space for…
Mobility, green spaces, urban planning, climate or local food supply: A randomly selected citizens' forum in Geneva has developed proposals on how to…
Since 2019, the German-speaking Community of East Belgium has had the world's first standing citizens' assembly with randomly selected participants,…
