Rethinking & Grounding Citizens’ Assembly Design
Citizens' Assemblies strengthen democratic capacity when genuinely outcome-agnostic, structurally embedded in existing governance, and in proximity enough that deliberation isn’t abstract.
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.