Ontario Citizens Assembly Monument - supporters
(What was the Citizen's Assembly?)We the undersigned agree:The Ontario Citizens' Assembly was an exceptional example of a legitimately democratic public policy development process."I am a great admirer...
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A Summary of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Starting September 2006, 103 randomly selected Ontario citizens committed to 30-40 hours a month for 8 months to get educated, hear public consultation and deliberate on the topic of electoral reform...
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About the Citizen's Assembly Monument Project
CitizensAssemblyMonument.ca is a volunteer project of Jason Diceman, an independent stakeholder engagement consultant and deliberative democracy researcher in Toronto. He is neither associated to the...
View ArticleAn Evaluation of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly Process
To structure my evaluation of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform I use the proven criteria and suggestions from the popularly cited "Public Participation Methods: A Framework for...
View ArticleCitizen Assembly process a high point for democratic engagement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEProcess for developing electoral reform already demonstrates better democracy in actionToronto - A growing list of political science professors from across Ontario agree that the...
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Ontario referendum should approve MMP by 84%, but will more likely fail
At the end of their 8 month learning, consultation and deliberation process the 103 members of the the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly voted 84% in approval of Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) over the...
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Citizens' Assemblies: Wise Democracy from the Minipublic
(Originally published on WorldChanging.com September 6th 2008) Politicians should take note; there is a new answer to some of the toughest questions of our times. When presented with an issue with no...
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First Global Democratic Deliberation in History
On September 26, 2009 approximately 4,000 citizens in 38 countries discussed and recognized their collective opinions on the issue of climate change. The format was an incredible example of best...
View ArticleOregon Citizens' Initiative Review
In the USA, many state elections include "initiatives", which are a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite) on a...
View ArticleExamples of Wise Democracy Using Random Citizens
Here is a great article by George Sranko that describes a variety of success stories using random citizens to give direction to government. "There are two key ingredients: direct involvement by a...
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