October 11, 2007

New Voting System Goes Down To Defeat In a front page story, the Ottawa Citizen quotes J.H. Snider on the significance of Ontario’s experiment with a citizens assembly.

October 5, 2007

School Board Backs TV Idea Baltimore Sun quotes J.H. Snider’s critique of local school system’s use of technology to cover itself.

September 14, 2007

Ontario’s Public Education Campaign Launches; U.K.’s Prime Minister Explores Creating a Citizens Assembly The latest issue of iSolon.org’s Citizens Assembly News Digest.

June 19, 2007

Citizens Assemblies: A Mechanism for Enhancing Legislative Transparency and Accountability iSolon.org policy brief prepared for the workshop, “Toward More Transparent Government,” held at the National Academies of Science on June 19, 2007.

June 15, 2007

From Dahl to O’Leary: 36 Years of the ‘Yale School of Democratic Reform’ J.H. Snider’s book review essay tracing the history of the citizens assembly proposal from Dahl’s 1970 After the Revolution (Yale University Press) to O’Leary’s 2006 Saving Democracy (Stanford...