How can Pinneberg better protect itself from heat and heavy rainfall? A Citizens’ Assembly has developed nine goals and 15 concrete measures for climate adaptation. Some of its proposals could lead to...

On 10 October 2026, the first of four citizens’ assemblies to review the COVID-19 pandemic will begin in Wolfsburg.

On 10 October 2026, the first of four citizens’ assemblies to review the COVID-19 pandemic will begin in Wolfsburg.

Wie kann sich Pinneberg besser vor Hitze und Starkregen schützen? Ein Bürgerrat hat neun Ziele und 15 konkrete Maßnahmen zur Klimaanpassung erarbeitet. Einige der Vorschläge könnten 2027 in einen Bürg...

How can Pinneberg better protect itself from heat and heavy rainfall? A Citizens’ Assembly has developed nine goals and 15 concrete measures for climate adaptation. Some of its proposals could lead to...

A notable degree of participative democracy has firmly arrived in Europe. But to have more far-reaching impact, democratic deliberation needs to move into a radically new phase.

Indigenous communities near present-day Milwaukee likely hand-carved the white-oak vessel before shaping it with fire between roughly 992 and 1049 C.E.

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

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Largely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Researchers are weaving together new insights from the traces they left behind

Alexandros Lordos told CNA that the aim is to convene the first Citizens’ Assembly by the end of 2026 or, at the latest, in early 2027.

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind

Um den Unsinn wahrzunehmen, den wir veranstalten, indem wir Demokratie mittels Parteien zu organisieren versuchen, reicht es aus, mit etwas Abstand auf unser Tun zu schauen: Geht es in der Demokrat…

Die Klimakrise zeigt die Grenzen unserer politischen Systeme. Bürgerräte könnten der Demokratie helfen, den langfristigen Blick zurückzugewinnen.

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Budget policy is often considered the supreme discipline of elected parliaments and local councils. But citizens selected by lot are increasingly being involved in decisions on this matter.

Citizens’ juries in Yorkshire and Humber found strong support for action on alcohol harm, including restrictions on marketing, stronger pricing policies, and protecting health policy from industry inf...

EU-CIEMBLY releases a groundbreaking policy brief urging the EU to embed intersectionality into citizens’ assemblies, ensuring...

Citizens' assemblies are deliberative bodies intended to form a microcosm of the population. Organizers rely on quota-based stratification and must decide which attributes define resemblance to the pu...

Brussels is turning to citizens’ assemblies to fix democracy. Do they work?

How should tourism in Copenhagen develop? A Citizens’ Jury comprising 36 residents addressed this question.

According to 852 randomly selected citizens, structural change in the Saarland is also a matter of citizen participation.

A year ago, I participated in the European Citizens Panel on Intergenerational Fairness. What I witnessed wasn't just dialogue. It was democracy in action, thoughtfully facilitated, resulting in propo...

97 randomly selected citizens show what the Rhenish mining region needs beyond billions in funding and major projects. The state government must now respond to their ten recommendations.

Democracy is often told as a European invention: Athens, parliaments, elections, parties. But if democracy is understood not only as voting, but as deliberating together, a different history emerges.

Slogans won’t slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI. But a citizens’ assembly representative of humanity’s diversity and independent of frontier labs and national governments could.

Die Klimakrise zeigt die Grenzen unserer politischen Systeme. Bürgerräte könnten der Demokratie helfen, den langfristigen Blick zurückzugewinnen.

Fixing complex problems usually involves difficult, unpalatable decisions. One solution: randomly select a group of ordinary people to debate the pros and cons and find a way forward.

Democracy is facing a paradox. Around the world, citizens continue to support democratic ideals while simultaneously losing faith in democratic institutions. According to a 2024 Pew Research Center su...

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