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 30, 2008

The Role of News Media in the Governance Agenda J.H. Snider serves as workshop discussant at this joint event sponsored by the Communication for Governance and Accountability Program at the World Bank and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public...

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.