Jonathan Pickering But the main question: Is democracy up to the task? Recognising that sustainability and democracy are favourable ends in themselves: Can we rely on existing democratic practices or do we need a transformation of democratic processes themselves?

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Working on the Facilitating Public Deliberation podcast today with Lyn Carson - did an interview with the three founders of Mosaic Lab talking about what happens 'in the room'. Thanks to newDemocracy for hosting and supporting this work. #democracyrd

Thanks so much John Gastil looking forward to reading Legislature by Lot

Happy to have used the skills developed with the Real Democracy Now podcast with newDemocracy and Lyn Carson to produce this podcast series to spread the message about how to facilitate deliberative processes and hopefully support the use of deliberative mini-publics.

Women riding the #delibWave! Doreen Grove Claudia Chwalisz Lyn Carson Laurie Drake @roselonghurst & many more!

#deldemss2020 dinner! Thanks so much ⁦DelDemUCan⁩

So much to talk about. #deldemss2020 ⁦DelDemUCan⁩ ⁦Museum of Australian Democracy⁩

John Dryzek reflecting on Old Parliament House’s deliberative & non- deliberative history #deldemss2020 ⁦DelDemUCan⁩

SCHOLARS OF DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS: Check out Participo - a digital space of exchange between public servants, practitioners, researchers, academics, and designers of innovative citizen engagement. Congratulations Claudia Chwalisz OECD Governance! medium.com/participo/rene…

To Whitman 'the gravest weakness of democracy was the artificial, culturally manufactured inequality of the genders, which he recognized not only as a corruption of democracy but as a corruption of nature.' The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) brainpickings.org/2020/03/05/wal…

.Ana Palacio, member of the ELN's executive board, asks 'Can Liberal Democracy Survive COVID-19?' for Project Syndicate project-syndicate.org/commentary/cov…

"The crisis situation of today are precisely the types of moments when the citizens’ voices need to be heard loud and clear, in a meaningful, democratic way" . @marcingerwin on online #DelibWave approach. Useful for #TRANSFORM! link.medium.com/GnNDFGeaL5 #RRI #citizenengagement

If you'd like to hear some of Caroline W. Lee 's views ahead of this seminar she is one a couple of academics critiquing deliberative mini-publics in Season 1 of the podcast: realdemocracynow.com.au/1-19/

VIRTUAL SEMINAR TOMORROW featuring Caroline W. Lee of Lafayette College. All welcome. Info here: bit.ly/34L3gXb

Thanks for the tweet newDemocracy

An interesting seminar run by International IDEA looking at representation and political parties. Wondering, how does this link with consensus vs majoritarian systems of democracy? Electoral systems impact on representation and parties too. idea.int/news-media/eve…

How much have things changed in the last four years? Listening again to the discussion with Archon Fung about his 2016 blog 'Our desperate need to save US democracy from ourselves'. Did we succeed? realdemocracynow.com.au/2-8/

Public opinion vs public judgement (post-deliberation) #TikTok #deliberation vm.tiktok.com/ZSJpmCYkv/

Bonus episode: The Paris Citizens' Assembly with Anouch Toranian, Yves Dejaeghere and Claudia Chwalisz. #institutionalisingdeliberation #deliberativedemocracy #deliberativedesign OECD Governance realdemocracynow.libsyn.com/the-paris-citi…