Events

This recording is the academic launch of the OECD Evaluation Guidelines for Representative Deliberative Processes and the Eight Ways to Institutionalise Deliberative Democracy policy paper. The programme features a thirty-minute presentation from Claudia Chwalisz and Ieva Cesnulaityte of the OECD, followed by brief comments from Melisa Ross (HU Berlin), Lucy J Parry (Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance and Democratic Society) and Matt Ryan (Reforming Democracy). This event was hosted by the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra and the Journal of Deliberative Democracy.

At this workshop organised by the Centre for Democracy Studies we shared our emerging findings on what makes an ethical mini-public. If you would like a copy of the presentation, please get in touch.

Join us for the second academic launch of the OECD Evaluation Guidelines for Representative Deliberative Processes and the Eight Ways to Institutionalise Deliberative Democracy policy paper. This event has been organised to fit with timezones in the Americas for those who missed out at our first launch event. The programme features a thirty-minute presentation from Claudia Chwalisz and Ieva Cesnulaityte of the OECD, followed by brief comments from Antonin Lacelle-Webster (University of British Columbia and Participedia), Felipe Rey (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and iDeemos) and Su Yun Woo (University of Zuerich). This event will be hosted by the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra and the Journal of Deliberative Democracy.

Åbo Akademi University is inviting applications for a summer school in deliberative democracy and public opinion. PhD students at various stages of their dissertation are encouraged to apply. The summer school is organized in collaboration with the University of Turku and Tampere University. Confirmed Speakers include James S. Fishkin (Stanford), Jane Suiter (DCU), Graham Smith (Westminster), Andre Bächtiger (Stuttgart), Nicole Curato (Canberra) and Sofie Marien (KU Leuven)
The Summer School in Deliberative Democracy is a collaboration with the University of Canberra and the ECPR Standing Group on Democratic Innovations. The Summer School in Public Opinion Research is organised by the Finnish Infrastructure in Public Opinion Research (FIRIPO).

As part of the Democratic Innovations section in the ECPR General Conference 2022, there will be a panel on advancing the integrity debate across different forms of democratic innovation. This panel is chaired by Lucy J Parry and Alfred Moore and brings together scholars working in different areas of democratic innovation and participation. It is possible to register as a virtual observer. Details here.

This roundtable brought together scholars and other experienced professionals in the deliberative democracy community to reflect on current trends in the field of practice and discuss the potential risks and opportunities they see moving forward. A recording of this event is currently not available but we are planning to transcribe it.

In conversation with the DemoReset project, Nicole Curato explains the key themes for deliberative integrity.

The practice of mini-publics composed of randomly selected citizens convened to yield policy recommendations has proliferated in recent years in what the OECD calls a “deliberative wave”. Currently there are no generally accepted integrity standards to govern their practice. We advance a search for such standards by bringing the scholarly literature on citizen deliberation into dialogue with the lived experience of practitioners. We locate five distinct perspectives on the integrity of mini-publics, and map the structure of agreement and dispute across them, with a view to improving the integrity, practice and governance of mini-publics.