Our Model for Capacity-Building Citizens' Assembly Design

Citizens' assemblies can build the capacity for democratic and social resilience, but only when rethought as a permanent, local, and outcome-agnostic model.

NYC Spends $60M on ‘Citizen-Led’ Democracy. But Is It Working?

How permanent, lottery‑selected neighborhood assemblies could fix NYC's civic engagement.

Complex Systems,
Linear Minds

Society is a complex system, but politics rarely treats it that way. We are trying to govern complex, living systems with binary, linear minds.