Discussions on a citizens’ assembly in Cluj, Romania in June 2018. Tudor Brabatan of Declic, Author provided There’s an urgent need to reduce the distance between citizens of EU member states and the ...

University of Southern Maine researcher Jennifer Chace says the initiative will bring together delegates from across the ...

Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and ...

You’ve all made real progress in addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis —from instituting the use of hotels as temporary housing to securing billions in new funding. But the crisis ...

At first, Sylvain Burquier thought it was a joke. It was August 2019, and Burquier and his two children were at their home in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, off the right bank of the River Seine, when ...

Developments in gene editing are often met with moral panic. Every new announcement raises outrage over the audacity of scientists “playing God”. The existence of mutant mosquitoes and designer babies ...

In 2016 Ireland’s parliament launched an exercise in deliberative democracy called the Citizens’ Assembly. The assembly was composed of a chairperson and 99 citizens selected at random to be ...

If you like the idea of juries weighing evidence and delivering verdicts, you might also like the idea of global citizens’ assemblies deliberating over genome editing technology. Both juries and ...

Sir David Attenborough has insisted that politicians listen to the recommendations of the first citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis. According to The Guardian, the veteran naturalist and ...