Topic dossier · 17 conversations
Deliberative democracy
Citizensّ assemblies, mini-publics, sortition and structured public deliberation. Researchers and practitioners discuss how randomly selected citizens can make sound decisions on complex issues, what makes deliberation legitimate, and the persistent challenge of connecting these processes to real institutional power.
Terry Bouricius on multi-body sortition and redesigning democratic lawmaking→Olivier Schulbaum on GRID, collective AI & slowing AI in democratic deliberation→Simon Horton on Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and How AI Can Help End War→Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation→Antoine Vergne from Missions Publiques on scaling deliberative decision-making and random selection→Paul Zeitz about permanent citizens' assemblies in the US and using technology to scale it→Hélène Landemore about deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and the future of democracy→Tiago Peixoto about the role of collective action in reforming democratic systems→Jonathan Moskovic about the future of deliberative citizen participation→Sonia Bussu about using arts to bring emotions in democratic settings→Martín Carcasson about the Center for Public Deliberation and overcoming toxic polarization→Evelien Nieuwenburg about Dembrane ECHO and mirroring insights from large groups' conversations→Stephen Boucher about Dreamocracy and how collective creativity solves complex problems in society→Oliver Klingefjord about the Meaning Alignment Institute and how to bring up wisdom in a collective→Josef Lentsch about the Political Tech Summit and huge potential in digitally assisted democracy→Lukas Salecker about deliberAIde and why generative AI makes a difference in deliberative democracy→Marcin Woźniak about Swarmcheck and Argument Mapping: How democratic discourse can be more rational→