Due soon 🚨 August 28 The The National Issues Forum Institute is accepting applications for Deliberative Democracy Fellowship in 2024. 👉 Open to individuals with experience in deliberative practices. 👉 $5k stipend + additional support funds. ncdd.org/news/apply-now…?

💣 Nationalist extremism poses a serious threat to democracy in Australia and elsewhere. How can we develop democratic resilience? Our Jordan McSwiney shares insights into his research in this week's lecture of Citizens, States and Societies! Canberra School of Politics, Economics & Society Hans Asenbaum

Antwerp’s Citizens’ Budget is a hybrid democratic innovation combining concentrated deliberation with large-scale voting. Learn more about this case here. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'Democratic deliberation cannot take its starting point from an assumed common rationality or common interests but from the fiction of the possibility to understand each other.' Learn more about identity politics and deliberation here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

PODCAST ALERT 🎧 Can citizens' assemblies and new democratic experiments make a difference, or are they just a distraction? The latest from UK in a Changing Europe feat Polly Curtis Demos. open.spotify.com/episode/2XIg2G…

RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 CHANGECODE generates theoretical and empirical knowledge of the influence of past practices of deliberation on contemporary decision-making. Check out the project website for info 👇 changecode.eu/about/what-is-…

'If a citizens’ assembly is brought together, and there is nothing at stake, then it is merely market research in democratic clothing.' 'AI has a democracy problem. Citizens’ assemblies can help' by Jack Stilgoe. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This week, Adele Webb x Madeleine Egan kicked off Week 1 of our Centre's MPP unit on Co-Design and Deliberative Engagement 🌟 We are proud of this offering as part of our suite of innovations in research-led teaching Canberra School of Politics, Economics & Society Business, Government & Law @ UC University of Canberra

We are sending good vibes to APSA Democratic Innovations + colleagues attending #APSA2024 Don't miss panels on ✨ democratic resilience Selen A. Ercan ✨ ✨ deliberation and inequality Adele Webb ✨ ✨citizen competence Simon Niemeyer & John Dryzek ✨

We're ending the week with a 📸 from 🇬🇧 A mini morning tea reunion with our very own Dr Lucy J Parry, Nicole Curato & Kei Nishiyama to discuss latest projects on participation of young people and non-humans in deliberation 🎉

A growing number of practitioners, activists and researchers are advocating for permanent or institutionalized climate citizens’ assemblies. What are the arguments in favour and against permanent assemblies? Read this briefing from KNOCA - Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies knoca.eu/briefings/towa…

🎭 What is identity & how does the state create it? In this week's lecture of Citizens, States & Societies, unit convenor Hans Asenbaum unpacks identity & gender based on his research. He delves into the history of feminism as a movement of gender reconstruction. Canberra School of Politics, Economics & Society

Attending #APSA2024? Don't miss 'Rethinking Citizen Competence in Democratic Theory and Practice' 📅 Thu, Sept 5 ⏲️12:00 - 1:30 🏨Pennsylvania Convention Center 204C Simon Niemeyer Michael Neblo admin.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa2…

How can public hearings bring benefits to representative, deliberative and participatory processes? ICYMI: Dr Ruth Lightbody published this piece Journal of Deliberative Democracy delibdemjournal.org/article/id/145…

It was fun giving this lecture on identity and gender with cameos from previous lectures by Selen A. Ercan on multiculturalism, Jordan McSwiney on nationalism and John Dryzek on the state.

To #demoinno friends attending #APSA2024 Check out: What Is Democratic Resilience? Defining and Applying a Novel Concept 📅 Fri, Sept 6 ⏲️ 12:00 to 1:30pm 🏨 Pennsylvania Convention Center Ballroom A APSA Democratic Innovations Selen A. Ercan Petra Guasti

Deliberative democracy cannot be decolonized because it does not serve the return of territory to Indigenous people. - Genevieve Fuji Johnson ICYMI: Our Centre published a debate on decolonising deliberative democracy edited by Hans Asenbaum Friedel Marquardt delibdem.org/_files/ugd/296…

To the APSA Democratic Innovations community 📣 #APSA2024 Join our very own Adele Webb with Felipe Rey Salamanca Hélène Landemore in this roundtable. 💭 Citizen Deliberation: Is It Possible with Major Inequalities? 🗓️ Fri Sept 6 ⏲️ 4 pm 🏨 Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, 414 admin.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa2…

🌏 PhD student Sahana Sehgal from DelDemUCan is exploring intercultural relations in multicultural societies. Watch her #UC3MT Three Minute Thesis pitch to find out more. Vote in the People’s Choice award by 8 Sep ➡️ bit.ly/3T5Odl8 UC Graduate Research #UniCBR

VOTE for our very own Sahana Sehgal ✅ People's Choice Award for University of Canberra's Three Minute Thesis Competition. Congratulations for making it to the finals, Sahana! canberra.edu.au/about-uc/event…