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🎯 Do citizen participation institutions really get stronger once they’re institutionalized—or do they become rigid, predictable, and easier to control? 📚Evidence from participatory budgeting, popular initiatives, and citizens’ assemblies in #Latam @melross.bsky.social bit.ly/4qkXG6h

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‘It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline … There is one notable exception to this promising international trend: North America’ on.ft.com/46OmMm1

Meter una mujer más en al foto -- Dina Boluarte-- aunque no tenga aval popular, pesen sobre ella acusaciones serias de corrupción y no haya aportado nada ni a la democracia ni a la causa de las mujeres sencillamente no tiene ningún sentido. ONU mujerse, urge una rectificación, @unwomen.bsky.social

📸 Sharing some snapshots from the JDD’s participation at the ECPR #DemocraticInnovations Standing Group Reception! Check out the key points from our editor @sbussu.bsky.social's speech at the event 👇 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

For the past four (!) years, @glocan.bsky.social and @iswe-foundation.bsky.social have been reflecting on learnings from the 2021 Global Assembly. In this correspondence, we take stock of what citizen deliberation may still do for global climate governance. 📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.es...

📣 Hungry for democracy? The Democracy R&D 2025 programme is live – and it’s a full-course menu. Sessions are carefully tagged by purpose (inform, train, debate, solve, network) and spice level (mild to spicy). New or seasoned, there’s a seat at the table. 🍽️ drive.google.com/file/d/1TEgK...

Landed in Rio some days ago for the @participedia.bsky.social School on Democratic Innovations with Traditional and Indigenous Communities. We are hosting two public roundtables next week, on decolonising knowledge production, and on intersectional leadership. Come by if you’re around!

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We're ending our June launch series with the fourth Research x Practice Exchange dedicated to Docking Global Deliberation. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴’ 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦? @nicolecurato.bsky.social, Aish Machani, and Antoine Vergne reply➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...

New week, new Research x Practice Exchange out! 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴’ 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴? @nigriveloso.bsky.social, Susan Lee and @andreafelicetti.bsky.social reflect on Grounding Global Deliberation. Read here ➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...

Catching up with #demoinno in Latin America with challenging findings by @welpita.bsky.social, @ernestoisunza.bsky.social, Adrian Gurza, Gisela Zaremberg, and Sofia Donoso. The kickoff: “Democratizing the State”, now out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Can, and should, the principles of deliberative democracy be applied to how global citizens’ assemblies are organised? This week, @rikkidean.bsky.social, @melross.bsky.social and Flynn Devine tackle questions of values and practice in Research x Practice Exchange #2 ➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...

Who experiences disadvantage in deliberations? Can socio-demographic categories help identify them in advance? How can we also account for their agency and ownership of their experience? Find out in our latest paper, out now in 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1177/1468...

Last year we hosted our first public Seminar Series on 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. This June, we’re releasing four reflection pieces on topical questions in global and transnational deliberation. First edition out now! 💡 glocan.org/wp-content/u...

Last weekend, the #DemocraticOdyssey came to an end. 300 participants from across Europe met in Athens, Florence, and Vienna to work on a Citizens’ Charter. The document is live and open to commentary: democratic-odyssey.k8s.osp.cat/assemblies/t... Pictured: Assembly members, crew, and observers.

‘libraries are places in which we work, study, meet, chat, use the toilet, get warm, connect to free wifi, attend classes, access childcare, receive legal advice or forms of state support. And it is this capacity that libraries begin to spill into other forms of public luxury’

Happy Friday! We’re ending the week with a snapshot from last weekend’s 10th European Citizens’ Panel. The assembly brought together 150 Europeans,a third of them young people. They produced 22 recommendations on the next European budget. Read more in our coming newsletter 🔜 GloCAN.org

‘In the US immigration control industry, people are raw material’ — @newleftreview.bsky.social

New publication in Contemporary Politics! ‘Democratic innovations and political parties: reevaluating the influence of ideology’ If you are interested in how political parties interact with democratic innovations, this article is for you. Link to the article👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘No amount of "deep concern" can make up for the military, economic and political support our government continues to provide. No words can negate the sale of deadly F-35 components. And no statements "urging" Israel to stop can match the impunity it has been granted to carry on.’

This report centres the experience, strategies, and frustrations of public officials - the other side of participatory initiatives. Highly recommended read for promoters of democratic innovations. Congrats Sahib and Johannes for the great work!

Still smiling a lot from last week's @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social's Annual Conference in Birmingham. Always a joy to hear about friends and colleagues‘ work, get into amicable fights, then solve empirical differences at the pub - all fairly deliberative, of course! Do I have pics? Well of course

Happy Monday! We're starting the week with great news: a new paper is out by GloCAN's @nicolecurato.bsky.social, @melross.bsky.social, @nigriveloso.bsky.social, and RADEZA's @Amiltone Luis. Read 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 following this link ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror

🗓️April newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network, with events, publications, training and more #democracy Available 👉🏼 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

A futuristic and harrowing weekend read: ‘SpaceX likes to portray itself as a mission-driven company, whose employees have bought into its ultimate dream, but it is still a company, where customers will be able to pay handsomely for the chance to risk their lives’

Hello #demoinno #delibwave community! We're updating our website and are looking out for news on global and transnational deliberative processes. How are your projects going? Any transnational citizens' assembly we're missing in our directory? Please let us know! glocan.org/about/direct...

📢 Call for participation! Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly? Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @participedia.bsky.social CFP and registration at the 🔗 below. ⬇️ drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I'm back from Italy to a sunny Berlin, but still thinking about the multiple projects advancing deliberative democracy against a turning tide. You can revisit our conversation about the place of citizens' assemblies with @citidemproject.bsky.social 'How to make citizens’ assemblies resonate?' ⬇️

🚨My small book with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social on timely #empathy #politics is online and I can't be happier! 🚨 shorturl.at/jZyPz *The manuscript can be accessed freely for the next 2 weeks!* The book builds on my PhD thesis, defended @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

‘Oppression is not a prep school’ Inclusive epistemology ‘asks that we swim upstream: to be accountable and responsive to people who aren’t yet in the room, to build the kinds of rooms we could sit in together, rather than merely judiciously navigating the rooms history has built for us’

Is there still a point to our democracy jobs and studies in a crumbling world? Perry Anderson seems to think so. ‘What is needed instead, and will not arrive overnight, is an entirely different spirit’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii151...

Looking for a bit of respite in these harrowing times: "Together, they represent the best of what novels can do: challenge us, delight us, pull us in and then release us, a little smarter and a little more alive than we were before" www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

❓An uncomfortable question: Did the participatory wave and the rise of digital communications technology contribute to the erosion of democracy? We answer it with @BenGoldfrank in this book ed. by Aaron Schneider In OA in Spanish: iis.ucr.ac.cr/images/image...

New paper out! To what extent are citizens' assemblies suitable in fragile and conflict-affected settings where trust is low, expectations are high and local ownership is critical? with @nicolecurato.bsky.social and @lucyjparry.bsky.social ➡️ read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Amici e colleghi in Italia: Siete invitati a questo evento sulla partecipazione politica in Europa in tempi di transizioni e incertezze. Mercoledì 26/2, 16:30 alla Università di Milano-Bicocca con interventi di Giorgia Serughetti, Paolo Graziano, Tatjana Sekulic, Matteo Zanellato, and yours truly.

Happening today, 16 CET! ➡️ unibo.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you later?

Salve amici! Join @andreafelicetti.bsky.social, Yves Sintomer, and myself next Monday for a timely conversation: How to make citizens’ assemblies resonate? Feb 17, 16:00-18:00 CET Hosted by @paulblokker.bsky.social and @citidemproject.bsky.social Register here: unibo.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“So it’s okay to be a little bitchy in your heart, as long as you can turn it off?” I asked her. “People who say they’re never bitchy in their heart are lying,” she said. A personal rec for a hilarious weekend read ➡️ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The event will launch a the recent Global Citizenship Forum (now an Ebook!) on a European People's Assembly, featuring over 24 authors, including GloCAN's own @melross.bsky.social Read the debate here ➡️ globalcit.eu/representing...

Happening today! Transnationalism meets Translocalism Join our friends from the Democratic Odyssey today, February 6, 16-18 CET, online or in person (if you happen to be in Florence - lucky you!). Register here ➡️ www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Little to add: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

If all you want for Christmas is a new job, then I have just the thing. Come work with me on the Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact project. Join a great dept at Southampton, and an international team researching the European wave of climate assemblies. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Our newsletter is now out! With news from #COP29 in Baku, the #G20Social in Rio de Janeiro, and the launch of International IDEA's report on #ClimateAssemblies in Canberra. Below is a snapshot of one of our favourite section that highlights new publications in transnational and global deliberation.

🌟Bienvenidas a la Red de Politólogas María del Mar Conti, #Suiza Melisa Ross, #Alemania Ximena Simpson, #Argentina Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, #PaísesBajos #NoSinMujeres #CadaDíaSomosMás #Somos914