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April 2016
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The Citizens’ Assembly pilots on local democracy and devolution were the first of their kind in the United Kingdom. Organised by Democracy Matters — an alliance of university researchers and civil society organisations led by Professor Matthew Flinders — and funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, the Assemblies took place in Southampton and Sheffield towards the end of 2015.
... Different terms have been used to describe processes in which randomlyselected citizens deliberate directlyw ith elected officials in ap articular forum. In their work on the Irish Convention on the Constitution, Arnold et al. (2019) talk of a "hybrid sortition chamber".Others refer to them as "mixed".F or instance, Flinders et al. (2016) differentiate between pure and mixed assemblies wherep ure assemblies consists olelyo f citizens and mixed assemblies include citizens and politicians. Strandberg et al. (2021a) and Vandamme et al. (2019) speak of "mixed deliberation" and a "mixed chamber" respectively.Yet,these terms are not sufficientlyc omprehensive.M ixed deliberation could be interpreted broadlytoinclude processes that involvethe wider citizenry, elected officials, stakeholders,a nd others in system wide deliberations as opposed to deliberations between citizens and politicians in ad iscreted eliberative forum as is the objective of this chapter.Intheir most recent work on the Irish Convention, Farrell et al. (2020) identify it as amixed-member deliberative forum (MMDF). ...
April 2016
