Recent years have seen a “wave” of national climate assemblies, which bring together
randomly‐selected citizens to deliberate and make recommendations on aspects of the …

This symposium examines the challenges and opportunities of recent efforts at embedding
participatory governance. It draws together original research that engages theoretically and …

When we participate in political debate or protests, we are judged by how we look, which
clothes we wear, by our skin colour, gender and body language. This results in exclusions …

Public administration is the largest part of the democratic state and a key consideration in
understanding its legitimacy. Despite this, democratic theory is notoriously quiet about public …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies offer new ways of conducting decision-making tasks
that influence the daily lives of citizens, such as coordinating traffic, energy distributions, and …

Contemporary democracies feature an increasingly diverse and complex variety of
democratic practices. The systematic observation of these practices offers a valuable yet …

What might participatory deliberative democracy look like in complex, mass societies?
Cristina Lafont's Democracy Without Shortcuts (2019) challenges us to revisit this question …

Foa, RS, & Mounk, Y.(2019). Democratic deconsolidation in developed democracies, 1995-
2018, 1995–2018, Harvard center for European studies open forum. Cambridge, MA …

Normative democratic theory with a focus on civic engagement is increasingly interested in
how participatory instances connect into democratic systems (Dean, Rinne, et al. 2019; …

How should democratic communities decide who should belong? Recent debates about
issues such as voting rights for prisoners, denationalization policies or citizenship tests raise …