No democratic state has yet implemented a climate plan strong enough to meet the goals of
the Paris Agreement. This has led some to argue that democracy cannot cope with a …

This paper reviews the various connections that can exist between the design of
participatory processes and the different kind of results that they can entail. It details how …

There has been a growing interest in the question of how to spur innovation in the public
sector, and recent research points to multi-actor collaboration as a superior innovation …

Bringing together ten leading researchers in the field of deliberative democracy, this
important book examines the features of a Deliberative Mini-Public (DMP) and considers …

We need new governance solutions to help us improve public policies and services, solve
complex societal problems, strengthen social communities and reinvigorate democracy. By …

Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic
politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic …

This essay reflects on the development of the field of deliberative democracy by discussing
twelve key findings that capture a number of resolved issues in normative theory, conceptual …

Recent years have seen a “wave” of national climate assemblies, which bring together
randomly‐selected citizens to deliberate and make recommendations on aspects of the …

Policy learning is an attractive proposition, but who learns and for what purposes? Can we
learn the wrong lesson? And why do so many attempts to learn what works often fail? In this …

Despite some prominent critics, deliberative democrats tend to be optimistic about the
potential of deliberative mini‐publics. However, the problem with current practices is that …