For a long time, Hamburg was the only German state where a mini-public had never been held. That changed in 2026.
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Flensburg is the first local authority in Schleswig-Holstein to hold a Citizens’ Jury followed by a local referendum. On 30 May 2026, the mini-public adopted 29 recommendations on the future of transport in the Baltic Sea city.
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The city of Brussels successfully used random selection to solve a mediaeval crisis – and could do so again.
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New on our website, “Culver City Holds Civic Assembly on Public Budget Participation”
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New on our website, “Culver City Holds Civic Assembly on Public Budget Participation”
Check it out www.publicdemocracyla.org/post/culver-...
#sortition #deliberativedemocracy #citizensassembly #lottocracy
Wayne Liebman @wayneliebman.bsky.social , founder of Public Access Democracy in LA, explains citizens’ assemblies and why they “need to be an arrow in democracies’ quiver.”
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Wayne Liebman @wayneliebman.bsky.social , founder of Public Access Democracy in LA, explains citizens’ assemblies and why they “need to be an arrow in democracies’ quiver.”
theurbanactivist.com/governance/c...
#sortition #civicassemblies #deliberativedemocracy
#lottocracy #democraticlottery
The Goldman School of Public Policy is convening a civic assembly in the city of Oakland during Fall 2026. This will be the first large-scale assembly in a major metro area in California.
Read about it here gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and...
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In a new post on Equality by Lot, Yoram Gat considers the ideological structure that is associated with the idea of the deliberative transformation. Read "The ideology behind the notion of the deliberative transformation" here: equalitybylot.com/2026/06/04/t...
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This article from 2020 makes the case for sortition. "By eliminating career politicians, sortition simultaneously curtails corruption and increases representation."
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Flensburg is the first local authority in Schleswig-Holstein to hold a Citizens’ Jury followed by a local referendum. On 30 May 2026, the mini-public adopted 29 recommendations on the future of transp...
The city successfully used random selection to solve a mediaeval crisis – and could do so again Sortition – the random selection of groups of people to study, deliberate and decide on a disputed topic...
In a previous post I discussed the “deliberative transformation”, a favorite trope within the theory of “deliberative democracy”. I pointed out that whereas the deliberative democrats s…
As a result of many months of advocacy by PDLA, Culver City City Council authorized a civic assembly on how to involve the public in the budgeting process. We are proud that our work with Culver City ...
As a result of many months of advocacy by PDLA, Culver City City Council authorized a civic assembly on how to involve the public in the budgeting process. We are proud that our work with Culver City ...
An ideal American democracy is not beholden to moneyed interests before the people it serves. It dismantles unjust and undemocratic systems. Sortition is not perfect, but it is far closer to this idea...