Where can I learn more about Citizens’ Assemblies?

New to Citizens’ Assemblies?

For a step-by-step guide on how to design, run, and act on the results of a Citizens’ Assembly, read our Assembling the Assembly Guide.

Can I learn about Citizens’ Assemblies online?

DemocracyNext is building a virtual learning programme on Citizens’ Assemblies, which we hope to make publicly available in 2025. Let us know if you’re interested, and be the first to know when it’s launched.

Like to listen while you walk?

Check out these podcast episodes featuring discussions on Citizens’ Assemblies:

• Lifeboats | Claudia Chwalisz on Larry Lessig's Another Way Podcast
• Democracy Without Politicians | Claudia Chwalisz on How to Citizen with Baratunde Thurston
• A Radical Proposal for True Democracy | Hélène Landemore on The Ezra Klein Show
• Design and Democracy | Claudia Chwalisz on Design Emergency with Alice Rawsthorn
• From Another Angle | Democracy, with Claudia Chwalisz on Carnegie Council Podcasts
• Facilitating Public Deliberations | A podcast by newDemocracy

Hear from Assembly Members

• Video by the Bude Climate Partnership | Bude Area Community Jury on Climate Change (2023)
• DemNext Video | How Ireland Transformed Democracy with Citizens' Assemblies (2023)
• DemNext Video | The French Citizens' Assembly on End of Life, Explained (2023)
• LCP Documentary about the French Citizens' Convention on Climate | Les 150 (2022)
• Video clip | Stephen Fry on Sortition and Democracy

Assembly stories

• The Other Guy and Me - True Story Award 2019 (originally published in Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Germany, 2018)