A handbook for the design and implementation of deliberative mini-publics in European hybrid regimes, including Serbia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
Read MoreA complete guide for the design and implementation of citizens' climate assemblies in the Spanish context, providing templates and step-by-step explanation of each of its phases.
Read MoreDocument detailing the Austria Climate Council, a citizens' climate assembly of 84 randomly selected citizens. It was established following a 2020 climate referendum signed by nearly 400,000 Austrians.
Read MoreResearch report on democratic innovations, analyzing participatory culture and experiences in Georgia, Ghana, India, Lebanon, Malawi, Nigeria, North Macedonia, South Korea, Taiwan, and parts of Latin America.
Read MoreAn Italian guide for the design and implementation of citizens' assemblies, explaining the main steps, showcasing good practices, and providing the necessary information for their development.
Read MoreAn academic article using "robust governance" as a framework for assessing the design of integrating deliberative mini-publics into complex political structures, through the use of six national climate assemblies as case studies.
Read MoreThe knowledge base provides definitions, guides, research findings, videos, and other resources about a range of participatory and deliberative processes.
Read MoreAn academic article on the institutionalization of citizens' assemblies in Ireland, considering whether the “Irish model” can be successfully replicated in other countries.
Read MoreA video and report on the process and proposals from Poland's citizens' assembly on energy costs, organized by the Shipyard Foundation, which took place between September and December 2022.
Read MoreA report on a series of deliberative minipublics run by the Decidania program in Brazil.
Read MoreAn overview of 6 major types of cognitive biases that tend to arise when groups of people work together.
Read MoreA short handbook on designing websites for citizens' assemblies.
Read MoreA handbook on planning and designing a citizens' assembly or jury.
Read MoreAn article written by a member of the Irish citizens' assembly, discussing her experience when deliberating on abortion legislation.
Read MoreA report looking at public deliberation in citizens' climate assemblies, with a focus on the Climate Assembly UK, which was the first United Kingdom-wide citizens' assembly on climate change.
Read MoreThis guide goes into detail on how the question in a deliberative process, such as a citizens' assembly or jury, should be framed.
Read MoreIn 2021, the public initiative Klimaneustart Berlin collected over 30,000 signatures for a petition to the Berlin House of Representatives calling for a citizens’ assembly on climate, which resulted in the creation of the Berlin Climate Citizens' Council.
Read MoreThis guide covers each stage of organizing a citizens' assembly, drawing on case studies from the Innovation in Democracy Programme, which supported three local governments in the United Kingdom to run assemblies in their local area.
Read MoreThis tool makes it easier to perform stratified random selection.
Read MoreThis practical guidance is for policy officials who are thinking about organising a climate assembly.
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