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In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent’s politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world…
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If future governments fail in the way that recent ones have, we will hit a point where the public’s patience snaps altogether and they try more radical alternatives on offer from extremists and charlatans. […] And when it does, politicians will find themselves asking: why didn’t we do things differently when we had the chance?…
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As the philosopher Roman Krznaric put it in a recent opinion piece on how to save democracy, “The rise of citizens’ assemblies is the most significant innovation in Western democracy since women won the right to vote a century ago.” So it is worth learning from this previous innovation as to how assembly democracy can catch…
Assembly Project 