In this episode, I’m talking to Professor Carson who is a world renowned expert on deliberative mini-publics, having researched, designed and run them as well as training others in how to engage with citizens through dialogue, deliberation and engagement. 

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Helene Landemore who is an A/Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Her research interests include democratic theory and theories of justice.

In this episode I’m speaking with Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill. South Australia has been at the forefront in the use of deliberative mini-publics, or citizens’ juries as they are often called here in Australia.

Deliberative mini-publics are a popular form of democratic innovation around the world. In today’s episode I talk to a range of people to get their perspectives on what is behind this popularity.

In this episode, I am speaking with Professor Janette Harts-Karp. She explains how she approaches the design of deliberative mini-publics focusing on three key elements: influence, deliberation, and representativeness.

In this episode, I’m talking with Peter MacLeod, CEO of MASS LBP, a canadian consultancy focused on democractic innovation and public strategy. Peter lays out how MASS approach the deisgn of reference panels and more!

In this episode, I’m talking with Iain Walkerm, the Executive Director of the newDemocracy foundation. He has designed and managed over twenty deliberative mini-publics for local and state governments in Australia.

In this episode, I’m talking with Professor Graham Smith from Westminster University. Graham was part of a number of academics who designed and ran the Democracy Matters project in 2015. Graham explains the background of the citizens assemblies he helped run.

This episode showcases the responses from my guests so far this season and how they see the essence of a real democracy. 

In this episode, I talk to Emily Jenke from Democracy Co and Titus Alexander from Democracy Matters. They discuss facilitating community engagement proceses and training faciliators.

In this episode I speak with three Australian facilitators. Each of these faciliators have over 20 years experience working with communities and all of them are award winning facilitators of deliberative mini-publics.

In this episode, I speak to Adam Cronkright who co-founded Democracy in Practice in 2013. It is an organisation dedicated to democractic innovation, experimentation and capcaity building currently working in Bolivia

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer who is the Executive Director of the NICD, an organisation that works to reduce political dysfunction and incivility in the US political system.

In this episode, I speak to Didier Caluwaerts, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the VUB. He gives me an insight into the G1000 process in Belgium. The G1000 arose in Belgium out of frustration with the inability of political parties to form a government.

In this episode, I speak with one of the founders of the G1000 in the Netherlands, Harm van Deijk. Harm has a background in faciliation and used these skills to develoip a model which has been used in numerous local governments across the Netherlands.

In this episode, I speak with Professor Fishkin who developed the idea of deliberative polling in 1998. Since then, they have been held in over 24 countries and once in 22 lagnagues simultaneously.

In this episode, I speak with everyday people who have been participants in mini-publics in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Each person has their own unique take on being a randomly selected participant in a deliberative mini-public.

In this episode, I speak with Professor Graham Smith and Professor Brigette GeiBel about the evaluation frameworks they have each develioped to assess the value of democractic innovations.

In this episode, I speak to three academics who each take a critical perspective on the operation of delibertaive mini-publics. Each of them takes issue with a different aspect of the impact or fluence that the recommendations coming from mini-publics have on public policy.