Center for the Study of Democracy

Lived experience in deliberative forums: a matter of design

Deliberative forums, including randomly selected minipublics, are increasingly expected to incorporate lived experience into democratic decision-making. Yet, without careful design, they risk marginalizing, extracting, or essentializing these experiences. This paper argues that s...

Process-Embedded Liquid Democracy: Complementary Delegation and Adaptive Representation

Liquid democracy is commonly described as a combination of direct participation and flexible delegation. This characterization captures an important common idea but conceals substantial variation among liquid-democratic delegation models and in the institutional processes in whic...