Is there a cosoc?
In 2011, Law No. 20,500 was promulgated, on Associations and Citizen Participation in Public Management, which has in one of…
Theme: Democracy
A Different Perspective on a Rising China
When operating citizens’ juries, our task is to give structure to people’s thinking so that they move beyond an opinion…
The Proposal to the Prime Minister
The Citizens’ Convention on UK Democracy’s Proposal to the Prime Minister is not a set of demands or a “take…
Civic Freedoms & the Sustainable Development Goals
In this 2018 report to the UN General Assembly (A/73/279), UN Special Rapporteur Clément Nyaletsossi Voule examines the linkages between…
The State of Civic Freedoms in North Africa and the Middle East
This report presents findings from an in-depth study, supported by the United States Agency for International Development, that explored the…
The Pulse: Australian Perspectives on Trust, The Political System and Citizens Juries
In March 2017, Pollinate Research conducted a quantitative study that takes the ‘pulse’ of Australians on a range of issues…
Systemic Impacts of Mini-publics
A mini-public is a democratic innovation that brings together a small, representative group of citizens to deliberate and advise on…
Participatory budgeting – the Australian way
For the First time in Australia a local council has used a deliberative democracy approach to obtain citizen advice on…