That's the basic logic of the deliberative poll, but not the citizens’ assembly. But it's not the only difference. The other problem is that a citizens’ assembly has to come to an agreed consensus, ...

And the deliberative assembly, chosen by sortition, works with a participatory budgeting process on how to spend 100 million Euros annually on city improvements.

Others call for innovations in direct, deliberative, or participatory democracy. Champions of each approach have claimed that their solution alone will deliver real democracy,” writes Lerner.

James Fishkin's Democracy When the People Are Thinking (2018) is a comprehensive account of why Deliberative Polling is now the gold standard for a type of deliberative mini-public. Fishkin's book is ...

In Ireland, the 2013 Constitutional Convention, largely focused on gay and lesbian marriage, and the 2016 Citizens' Assembly, largely focused on abortion, are among the best examples of this second ...

They seemed, however, to include a monarch or raja, and a deliberative assembly that met regularly and discussed all major state decisions. The gana sanghas had full financial, ...

On May 12, 2025 the City of New Westminster’s Council voted to renew their Community Advisory Assembly, becoming the first city in Canada to embed this innovative model of public deliberation in their ...

Deliberative democracy: Sounds boring — but it just might save us ... The other problem is that a citizens’ assembly has to come to an agreed consensus, sort of like a jury verdict.