Searching for Democracy 2.0 without losing Democracy 1.0 Editors' Picks Reimagining and safeguarding democracy, while charting a course between alarmism and complacency, requires new ways of thinking. Read more
Detoxing Democracy 3: bringing citizen deliberation into government administration Tuesday February 21, 2017 By Nicholas Gruen Features DETOXING DEMOCRACY: Citizen deliberation is a powerful tool for legitimisation, but can it become institutionalised? Just as Yarra Valley Water consulted its community in… Read more
Detoxing Democracy 2: a mixed model of democracy for Australia Thursday February 16, 2017 By Nicholas Gruen Features DETOXING DEMOCRACY: The first essay in this series explored the case for deliberative democracy. What could deliberative democracy look like at the political… Read more
Gruen: detox democracy through representation by random selection Tuesday February 14, 2017 By Nicholas Gruen Features DETOXING DEMOCRACY: What is the case for deliberative democracy, and why would we put ourselves through 'sortition'? As our institutions fall in respect and… Read more
