There, an elected city council workers with a citizens’ assembly of randomly selected Parisians on topics like homelessness. And the deliberative assembly works with a participatory budgeting ...

As my colleague Nick Burbules points out in his timely article on deliberative and activist speech ("How Activist Speech Threatens Educational Values,” October 8, 2024), many universities “are ...

The “world’s greatest deliberative body” now spends most ... of a nominations and legislation factory. Senators are not assembly line workers. They are lawmakers, and the majority leader ...

Meaningful conversations occur in deliberative democracy. In deliberative democracy, decisions are made by a randomly-selected sample of individuals from the population, as opposed to policymakers ...

One of the best ways to strengthen democracy is instead working from the bottom, unleashing people’s energies and creativity through deliberative practices. I have the hope that such democratic ...

The experience offered students some understanding of the complex processes that underlie democratic decision-making, for ...

Only when this place is plunged into a governance black hole does the issue of reform get the attention it deserves ...

Self-assembly is the process by which an organized structure spontaneously forms from individual components, as a result of specific, local interactions among the components. When the constitutive ...

Such binding statements can come only from the plenary assembly, not from any subordinate ... councils to arrive at “a potential unity in deliberative acts”; but this phrase seems to refer ...

Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, hopes the legacy of the Synod on ...

The State Editorial Board endorses these four candidates for General Assembly. In state House ... awaiting new members of the state’s most deliberative body. Members of McClatchy’s South ...