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Another Democratic Future is Possible

DemocracyNext is an international research & action institute focused on scaling high quality, empowered, and permanent citizens’ assemblies.

We believe in a more just, joyful, and collaborative future, where everyone has meaningful power to shape their societies.

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Citizens’ assemblies are brave spaces for creative problem solving.

Assemblies are designed for exercising our collective intelligence, engaging with complexity, and finding common ground.

At their heart are three key ideas:

1. Sortition (selecting decision makers by lottery)

2. Deliberation (collectively weighing evidence for shared decisions), and

3. Rotation (taking turns representing, and being represented by others).

Our three-stage guide to accompany you through the different steps of designing, running, and acting on the results of a citizens’ assembly - dig in, and share widely!

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Join us for a webinar co-hosted by Lucy Reid (DemNext) and Charlotte Holmes (BMT) with some of the people involved in the process, including some of the citizen jurors, Sara Wajid, co-CEO of Birmingham Museums Trust, Mara Livermore and Rowan Harris from Shared Future, Mathew Beckett from River Rea Films and evaluator Isabella Roberts.

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Looking back, moving forward...

In this new paper by Sammy McKinney and Claudia Chwalisz, we explore: What does scaling democratic deliberation mean, why is it valuable, and what is the role of AI in enabling it?