August 18, 2008

Americans for Redistricting Reform Advisory Committee Member Organizations Americans for Redistricting Reform names iSolon.org as an Advisory Committee Member Organization.

July 14, 2008

Would You Ask Turkeys To Mandate Thanksgiving?  Using Citizens Assemblies to Reform the Process of Democratic Reform The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy publishes J.H. Snider’s Working Paper #2.

June 28, 2008

Harvard Hosts 2-Day Citizens Assembly Conference; New Zealand Parliament Allocates $4.3 million for a Citizens Assembly The latest issue of iSolon.org’s Citizens Assembly News Digest.

June 27, 2008

iSolon.org Launches Citizens Assembly Facebook Group The Citizens Assembly Facebook group provides an online place for academics and practitioners interested in citizens assembly based democratic reform to come together as a community to pursue their common...

May 17, 2008

Crackpot or Genius?  Canada Steps onto the World Stage as a Democratic Innovator The Journal of Public Deliberation publishes J.H. Snider’s concluding remarks at the Harvard University Canada Program’s conference on democratic deficits and citizens assemblies, May...

May 14, 2008

Designing Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2008) The Journal of Public Deliberation publishes J.H. Snider’s review of the first major book to be written about citizens assemblies.