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 ...

In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province’s electoral ...

Established in 1945 under the Charter of the United Nations, the General Assembly occupies a central position as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations.

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