We tell ourselves we are consumers 3000 times a day. A new book asks: what if we told ourselves we were citizens?
Democratic innovation is in rude health, says the outgoing director of Involve, riding a "deliberative wave"
Different kinds of CANs keep opening up…here’s a range of “Climate Action Networks’, heading for COP26 in Glasgow
Come see Out Of The Ruins, a film about democracy reborn in Greece, at our Zoom Watch Party on 22nd June
Push back those working hours to care for others and the planet, and to develop ourselves. But a positive vision is required
Now even Cambridge professors argue for deliberative democracy and sustained street protest, to tackle our climate breakdown
If sortition is one key to a revival of democratic power, what is its ultimate form? Welcome to The Third Chamber
The Ostbelgien Model: Belgium's German-speaking community set up a Citizens' Assembly & Council, alongside the old power structures
So, practically and precisely, how could citizens' assemblies help us respond to climate crisis?
Citizens Assemblies are good - but could they trigger even wider conversations about taking back real control? Here's TalkShop
Active Citizenship, and other new ways to think about leisure, from Maria Dorthea Skov
Citizens Assemblies are the idea of the moment. But will they actually help the current UK political crisis?
Tempo, Horizons, Patterns: Eric Liu on three ways we can shape time to serve our citizenship
Alternative Editorial: Can We Change Channel Please?
We mostly think citizens bring huge value to society. But only a tiny number of us think they will. Let's change that.
Welcome to Citizen University - and other places you can go to learn how to change your society
Alternative Editorial: Poeticians, micro-utopias and citizens assemblies will renew democracy
Could there be such a thing as a "Citizen Confidence Index"? What would it measure, and why?
Alternative Editorial: Three Game Changers
A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, GLOBALISTS, LOCALISM, PRACTICEpat kanesimon anholt, good country, innovation, relational welfare, social care, youth, employment, relationship, nations, platform cooperativism, collaboration, technology, global citizens, citizenship, radicalism, families
Polarisation - and how to reduce it. A great new podcast series from the RSA