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Join the authors and special guest speakers to discuss how deliberative assemblies are not decision-making machines whose sole value lies in the quality of the recommendations. They are spaces in which participants exercise and develop the civic capacities that democracy depends upon. The authors call these deliberative muscles - and a muscle weakens when it isn’t used.

​In this DemocracyNext webinar, we launch a new paper reflecting on the lessons from DemocracyNext's Cities Programme - our experience advising two cities and two regions across three continents: Esch-sur-Alzette, Vilnius, Kerewan, and Central Oregon. It makes the case for approaching citizens' assemblies not as one-off events dependent on political will at a moment in time, but as new institutions to which power can be shifted. Doing so, we argue, requires a completely different mindset. It needs to be approached like a marathon, not a sprint.

Our three-stage guide to accompany you through designing, running, and acting on the results of a citizens’ assembly - dig in, and share widely!