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Assemblies as an antidote to authoritarianism
Today we publish a new paper by DemNext Senior Advisor Ieva Česnulaitytė on the deliberative wave in Central and Eastern Europe
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🇺🇸 Rekindling American democracy's spirit of public happiness
Our Founder Claudia Chwalisz shares her reflections after the US election
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🦋 New paper: More-than-human governance experiments in Europe
What if we lived in a world where all living things contributed their intelligence to the decisions made about our futures.
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🗳️What has the US election campaign taught us about elections?
A year of political drama leaves us roughly where we started
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October 2024

September 2024

🇺🇸 Citizens' Assembly members get to work in Deschutes County, USA
A first-ever tech assisted assembly is honing in on ways to stop youth homelessness
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🏙️ 3 new cities! Announcing the DemNext Cities Programme
Over the next 18 months, DemocracyNext will work with Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), Kerewan (The Gambia), and Vilnius (Lithuania) to democratise city…
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Turkish author Ece Temelkuran: "Citizens are being deliberately infantalised"
The bestselling author speaks about Erdoğan, Turkey's "tour" through right-wing populism, the end of "gurus," and how change must come from the ground
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July 2024

How a permanent Citizens' Assembly in Paris passed a bill into law
A French civil servant who facilitated the historic process explains what happened, from start to finish
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New Cities Programme collaborations in Lithuania and Luxembourg
How the cities of Vilnius and Esch-sur-Alzette plan to democratise their urban planning
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Launching a first-of-its-kind Civic Assembly in Deschutes County, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸
12,750 invitation letters have been mailed to residents in our first project to institutionalise a Citizens' Assembly in the US
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🔄 Comings and goings at DemocracyNext!
Ieva Česnulaitytė is moving to an advisory role, Audrey Tang and Deb Roy are joining our Advisory Council, plus an update on our organisational status
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