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Forum for the latest thinking, emerging debates, alternative perspectives and critical views on deliberative democracy.
In case this slipped past your feed, check out Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis, and Camille Dobler's piece on their first-hand experience as organisers and observers in the Democratic Odyssey project:

🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...

Available in German, Greek, Italian and English!
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🗄From the archives, but highly relevant for anyone in policy-making or community engagement:

Check out Florian Roth & co's paper, which presents a risk-based perspective on Participatory Policy-making (PPM), drawing on projects in 4️⃣ European countries

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November 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
How do communities navigate intensely painful public controversies? 🤔

Check out Philip Dalton's case study on how Elgin, Illinois resolved a public art controversy by analysing the "ilauditory acts of listening" between city officials & Black leaders 👇

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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
🆕 Digest piece!

Anna Slaviero examines the Norwegian Education Act’s systemic exclusion of Sámi knowledge from its deliberative process, & suggests steps towards #epistemicjustice in #deliberativedemocracy.

👉 www.publicdeliberation.net/epistemic-ju...

Available in Norwegian & English 🇳🇴
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Democratic innovations aim to deepen citizen engagement & improve governance, but their institutionalisation & integration into local contexts may be challenging.

📌 ICYMI: Bokyong S.’s research on participatory budgeting in South Korea 🇰🇷 engages with this theme

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October 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
What is the role of #politicalideology in the adoption of deliberative #minipublics in Europe❓

ICYMI: Rodrigo Ramis Moyano, Graham Smith, Ernesto Ganuza and Thamy Pogrebinschi provide the first systematic analysis on this question 👇

www.publicdeliberation.net/does-party-i...
October 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
New article alert! 📌

When mini-publics are #scaled to regional or transnational levels, how do institutional #designs affect self-exclusion?

Aliénor Ballangé investigated the European Citizens’ Panels to answer this question 🧐

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October 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
What does #democraticgovernance look like in the context of emergencies? 🚨

Re-sharing Mikko Värttö's research on deliberative mini-publics organised globally in connection to the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at #democraticinnovations in emergencies👇

OPEN ACCESS: delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
How can #policy discussions & #adaptation strategies centre #women’s voices & needs? Should they?

📍ICYMI: Check out our Dispatch from Sub-Saharan Africa
highlighting #women as important actors in the fight against #climatechange

🔖 www.publicdeliberation.net/social-capit...
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
ICYMI 🚨

Marit Hammond on how #deliberativedemocracy can be understood as 'a political culture marked by a citizen-initiated consciousness and motivation toward unending democratic social critique' ✊

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September 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Can deliberative mini-publics reduce confirmation bias? 🤔

In JDD’s newest article, Kaisa Herne, Kimmo Grönlund, and Peter Soderlund studied a local-level mini-public on the topic of transportation policies to answer this question. 🇫🇮

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September 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
📸 Sharing some snapshots from the JDD’s participation at the ECPR #DemocraticInnovations Standing Group Reception!

Check out the key points from our editor @sbussu.bsky.social's speech at the event 👇

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September 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Newest JDD article available now! ⬇️

Young Jee Kim analysed transcripts of online deliberations to examine whether #socialstatus translates into #deliberativeadvantage regarding how individuals deliberate and how opinions form. 💬

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August 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Newest Digest out now! 🚨

Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis & Camille Dobler reflect on three #innovations introduced in the Democratic Odyssey’s process design:

1️⃣ iterative composition
2️⃣ open consultation on the remit
3️⃣ centring lived experience

🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...
August 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
citizen deliberation🤝climate research decision-making

DISPATCH from 🇳🇱

Remco Van der Stoep & co share insights from the project Climate Research in Dialogue, which aimed to bring Dutch residents into the conversation about #climateresearch priorities

www.publicdeliberation.net/democratisin...
August 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What patterns of #democraticinnovations can be observed among #digitaldemocracy innovations in #LatinAmerica during COVID-19 ?

🚩ICYMI: Valesca Lima takes us through 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇪🇨
➡️ citizen engagement
➡️ democratic resilience
➡️ e-participation

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August 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
What's the relationship between care & other #democratic practices such as #deliberation or protests?

📌 ICYMI: Building on feminist care ethics, Markus Holdo considers questions of constructing more radically different spaces as questions of #care

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July 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
What are the opportunities & challenges of introducing #Participatory Policy-making instruments at the local level?

NEW ARTICLE: Florian Roth & co investigates
✅ stakeholder workshops
✅ Delphi surveys
✅ focus groups
✅ citizen panels

in 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭 from 2021-2023

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July 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Mid-year appreciation post ❤️‍🔥

We're grateful to our amazing authors, brilliant editors, generous supporters, & supportive intellectual homes. 🙌

Without them, the JDD & Digest's commitment to fee-free, open access, high quality, & global publishing would not be possible.
July 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
While political ideology influenced the adoption of #ParticipatoryBudgeting in Europe, this new study shows no clear ideological pattern in the early adoption of #deliberative #minipublics 👇

🔖 LATEST from the Digest: publicdeliberation.net/does-party-i...

Available in:
➡️ Spanish
➡️ English
July 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NEW PAPER ALERT 💫

Using #participatorycriticalrhetoric, Philip Dalton explores how attentive #listening between government officials and Black leaders in Elgin, Illinois, shaped their response to a controversy over a public mural of a lynch mob.

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June 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Our Digest editor & JDD co-editor Lucy Parry is in the house! 🎉

Captured here working hard on submissions, w/ editor @hansasenbaum.bsky.social & ed. assistant @olivemendoza.bsky.social at the @deldemucan.bsky.social 🇦🇺

We missed you @franziskamaier.bsky.social, Hannah Werner, @sbussu.bsky.social!
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
LATEST RELEASE 🔔

Using 🇰🇷 as a case study, Bokyong Shin from the University of Helsinki highlights the critical role of #mediaframing in introducing and promoting #participatorybudgeting to the public 📰 🗞️

OPEN ACCESS: delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...
June 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New article alert‼️

Mikko Värttö analyzed #deliberative #minipublics organized globally in connection to the COVID-19 pandemic, showing #publicparticipation’s adaptability and creativity in addressing crisis situations

⬇️https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1660/
June 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
JUST PUBLISHED 🔥

Unpacking #deliberation as a practice-to-be-implemented & as a wider theory of #legitimacy, Marit Hammond argues for #deliberativedemocracy as a political culture oriented toward resisting domination ✊

OPEN ACCESS: delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...
May 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM