James Organ receives funding from the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency for this project There’s an urgent need to reduce the distance between citizens of EU member states and the ...

You’ve all made real progress in addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis — from instituting the use of hotels as temporary housing to securing billions in new funding. But the crisis ...

You’ve all made real progress in addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis —from instituting the use of hotels as temporary housing to securing billions in new funding. But the crisis ...

At first, Sylvain Burquier thought it was a joke. It was August 2019, and Burquier and his two children were at their home in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, off the right bank of the River Seine, when ...

Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and ...

Two members of the Citizens Convention on the End of Life arrive for the group’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, April 3, 2023 (Sipa photo by Raphael ...

As part of a wider investigation into how social and political systems can be reshaped, the LA-based Berggruen Institute is looking at how the political process in LA can be reformed in the wake of ...

Nicole Curato receives funding from the Australian Research Council for project titled Global Citizen Deliberation: Analysing a Deliberative Documentary. Simon Niemeyer receives funding from the ...

If you like the idea of juries weighing evidence and delivering verdicts, you might also like the idea of global citizens’ assemblies deliberating over genome editing technology. Both juries and ...

The Citizens’ Assembly — an unelected body tasked with drafting a new constitution for Harvard College’s student government — is facing questions over its structure. The body is the brainchild of ...

Sir David Attenborough has insisted that politicians listen to the recommendations of the first citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis. According to The Guardian, the veteran naturalist and ...