- Studies of #DeliberativeDemocracy show these differences can be rapidly reconciled via well-moderated discussion.

- There’s no sane reason to allow a handful of media & social media billionaires to control all of society’s information.

Habermas and the crisis of democratic deliberation in the digital age The article reflects on the relevance of Jürgen Habermas’s theory of deliberative democracy in contemporary societies dominated by digital media, polarization, and algorithmic attention economies. It begins by noting that many now see Habermas’s ideal of rational public deliberation as outdated or even naive, given the fragmentation of public discourse into ideological tribes whose communication is driven more by emotional appeal and manipulation than by reasoned argument. The media landscape of social networks, targeted propaganda, and competition for clicks is portrayed as fundamentally at odds with the social conditions Habermas assumed for a functioning public sphere. The piece also acknowledges that politics has always been a struggle for power, identity, and belonging, and that Habermas’s normative model, while appealing, does not describe how most societies actually operate today. Yet the author argues that the Habermasian ideal remains crucial as a moral and normative horizon: without public deliberation among free and equal citizens, democratic legitimacy erodes, emotional polarization intensifies, and democratic cohesion frays. The article contrasts the weakening authority of the critical intellectual with the rise of comfortable pundits and viral influencers, but insists that Habermas’s core insight—that democracy depends on the ability of citizens to debate, argue, and listen—has not lost its force even if the ideal is never fully realized. The text concludes by warning that abandoning this deliberative standard risks reducing politics to a mere contest for control of the state apparatus, an evolution that is already visible in the decline of parliamentary and media discourse and the broader global democratic backsliding.

Habermas and the crisis of democratic deliberation in the digital age

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#habermas #deliberativedemocracy #technoscience

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🏛️Our first EU-Ciembly Citizens' Assembly in Colchester is a wrap and what a success! Three sessions, real conversations on housing and concrete policy recommendations from citizens.
Next stop: Cyprus in April for our national pilot
🔗eu-ciembly.eu
#EUCiembly #CitizensAssembly #DeliberativeDemocracy

Charter Assembly Completed and Reports to commission The results of the Los Angeles civic assembly on the structure and election of city council were presented to the Los Angeles Charter Commission on March 10.The report was presented to the commission,...

LA Charter Reform Civic Assembly Reports to the Commission www.publicdemocracyla.org/post/charter... #civicassemblies #deliberativedemocracy #democraticlottery #sortition

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people sitting in benches inside art deco room with one talking into a microphone

people sitting in benches inside art deco room with one talking into a microphone and others standing up lined up behind the speaker waiting to speak

Delegates from the LA Charter Reform Civic Assembly presenting their recommendations to the Charter Reform Commission @reformlacharter.bsky.social #civicassembly #deliberativedemocracy #sortion #citizenassemblies

Event announcement for the event described, with photos of the speakers and a black-and-white drawing of a village with a car and people in a small square

Deliberative #Democracy in #Africa: #DemocracyNext Paper Launch Event, 12 March ,15:00 - 16:30 MEZ online. Learning from past #CitizensAssemblies & guidance for future action" by Rorisang Lekalake & Stephen Buchanan-Clarke. #PublicParticipation #DeliberativeDemocracy #Facilitation luma.com/zwivuf6f

Earned settlement gamble risks immigration backlash from Britain’s silent majority | LBC If ministers reduce immigration to a shouting match, they may soon find the quieter majority answering at the ballot box

'the narrative is framed by the loudest & increasingly extreme positions..
What is needed is a real political commitment to hear [people] out & act on their considered collective conclusions. & there’s a practical, tangible way to make it happen.' #DeliberativeDemocracy
www.lbc.co.uk/article/earn...

Recently a citizens assembly met in Kadrina, Estonia to discuss "What makes a good life?".

The sign on the community building directly translates to "House of the people", so fits well.

+Pics from wintery #Estonia.

rahvakogu.info/en/goodlife/
#DeliberativeDemocracy #minipublic #citizensassembly

What's Andy Burnham's legacy for democracy in Greater Manchester? How about a Citizens' Assembly, bringing together ordinary people from across the region and giving everyone a chance at a seat at the table?

#UKPolitics #DeliberativeDemocracy #Democracy #Citizens

Our BBC: A blueprint for a more independent and future-proofed BBC Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

How can we make the #BBC more independent and more accountable?

Recommendations in this @demos-uk.bsky.social report by @sdp.bsky.social (me), @hannahperry.bsky.social & @pollycurtis.bsky.social.

demos.co.uk/research/our...

#publicservicemedia #epistemicsecurity
#deliberativedemocracy

Opinion: Mamdani’s New York is listening to its citizens. Why is Ireland not? In contrast to New York’s experiment in mass engagement, Ireland’s commitment to citizens’ assemblies is waning, according to Dr Seána Glennon.

"If we are serious about protecting our democracy against disillusionment and malaise, we need to find concrete ways of involving our citizens in decision-making."

#deliberativedemocracy
#CitizensAssembly

www.thejournal.ie/readme/mamda... @seanaglennon.bsky.social

👉 Adaptation is key: Deliberative processes must tailor language choices to context, not use one-size-fits-all models.

Congratulations Lisa and thanks for choosing PLC!

#Deliberativedemocracy #CitizensAssemblies #Multilingualism #Luxembourg #Inputthroughputoutputlegitimacy

🎈 How a student citizens' assembly in France is reshaping a Parisian university A pioneering new deliberative democracy project invites university students, faculty and administrative staff to develop transformative measures to future-proof their institution against social and en...

🎈No.5 Émilie Frenkiel introduces a pioneering #DeliberativeDemocracy project inviting university students & staff to develop measures to future-proof their institution against social and environmental challenges, bridging the #RepresentativeDisconnect between citizens & institutions bit.ly/4jBg7Bn

The Guidebook for Deliberative Engagement: Key Features and Practical Insights provides practical guidance for designing, implementing, and evaluating deliberative engagement.

🔗 Read the Guidebook:
researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/publicati...

#DeliberativeEngagement #DeliberativeDemocracy

Avaleht | Rahvakogu rahvakogu, hea elu, kodanikualgatus, demokraatia,

Rahvakogu jaanuar-veebruar 2026: Mida on heaks eluks vaja?
Milline sotsiaal-majanduslik poliitika tagaks inimeste ja looduse heaolu?

30 juhuvalimiga eripalgelist inimest arutamas.

#Eestitwitter #Rahvakogu #DeliberativeDemocracy
Rohkem lugeda ja enda huvi osaleda saad märkida siin:
rahvakogu.info

Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies Contrary to concerns from politicians and commentators that degrowth is broadly unpopular, the core degrowth proposal received substantial support from UK and US participants in this study, regardless...

Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental & predictive studies
- The Lancet Planetary Health

#Degrowth
#Equity
#UpgradeDemocracy
#CitizensAssemblies
#DeliberativeDemocracy
fossilfueltreaty.org
#JustTransitionNow
#GreenTransitionNow

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People.

Innovative citizen participation experiments in the news:
- Belgium
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
www.buergerdialog.be/en/
- NL (use transl. engine)
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.burgerberaadklimaat.nl
- USA
medium.com/jigsaw/we-th...
wethepeople-250.org
#deliberativedemocracy #citizensassemblies

Opening the Conference “Resilient Europe through deliberative democracy: Cities and regions in action!", @congress.coe.int Vice-President Konstantinos Koukas highlighted the important role of resilient democratic institutions.

🎥 Watch live: go.coe.int/36DzP

#DeliberativeDemocracy

Cities and regions in action for a New Democratic Pact: deliberative democracy for democratic resilience - Congress of Local and Regional Authorities - www.coe.int Strasbourg, France 24 November 2025

📢 The conference “Resilient Europe through deliberative democracy: Cities and regions in action!” is tomorrow!

🎥 Watch it live: go.coe.int/36DzP
🗂️ Agenda and additional information: go.coe.int/eBb8r
🔗 For more: go.coe.int/p5J5o

#DeliberativeDemocracy

Read the case study report here: doi.org/10.31752/ide...

Watch the recording of the #IDFC event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXGj...

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #DemocracyForAll #COP30 #COP30noBrasil #ClimateFinance #DeliberativeDemocracy

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📘The European Disability Forum has released an updated version of its Guide on the EU AI Act!

Discover how your organisation can contribute to implementation and advocate for inclusive AI ⤵️
🔗 lnkd.in/eK6jgVA9

#HorizonEU #AccesstoInformation #DeliberativeDemocracy #AI

Let’s bridge community divides and tackle the issues people care about most. Join @dhnnjyn.bsky.social in supporting our campaign for a rolling citizens’ assembly in Greater Manchester.

Join and donate at www.858.org.uk/pledge

#deliberativedemocracy #democracy #CitizensAssembly #manchester

This is a dark time, but it may be the darkness before the dawn

#Democratisation = many birds, 1 stone

#DirectDemocracy

#ParticipatoryDemocracy

#DeliberativeDemocracy

#ThirdDraftDemocracy

𝙋𝙞𝙘: 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙮 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙣 1992, 𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙪𝙡𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙧

Late in the day, the #DeliberativeDemocracy Assembly reviewed key insights from Facilitators for future planning. Thank you lots to Brighton #YourPartyUK Coordinators for their outstanding effort in managing logistics and keeping everything on track. A small, focused team makes a big impact! 👏

I now suspect that #DeliberativeDemocracy is about to really take off, & may (wild guess) start to take over some governance work from the failing representative system.

🆕 Digest piece!

Anna Slaviero examines the Norwegian Education Act’s systemic exclusion of Sámi knowledge from its deliberative process, & suggests steps towards #epistemicjustice in #deliberativedemocracy.

👉 www.publicdeliberation.net/epistemic-ju...

Available in Norwegian & English 🇳🇴

(My guess = a hybrid of #DeliberativeDemocracy, #DirectDemocracy & representative democracy. And that the burden of governance will shift over time toward the first two.)

Right now, speculation about the next 20 years is focused entirely on the revolutions in economics, geopolitics & technology.

📅 On Nov 26, 2025, @Congress hosts “Resilient Europe through deliberative democracy” in Strasbourg.
Local elected officials, experts & civil society unite to boost democracy & citizen participation across Europe.
🗣️ Join us
go.coe.int/eBb8r

#NewDemocraticPact #deliberativedemocracy @coe.int

Fully-funded #PhD research scholarship using #DeliberativeDemocracy principles and #Games to explore the ethics of Carbon removal technologies.

#SocialScience #Research #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #Climate #Adapt #CDR #GreenSky #GeoSky #Tasmania ✂️🎲

We often get Citizens’ Assemblies backwards. Don't fit a problem to an institution. Instead:
☑️Define the problem.
☑️Assess strengths & weaknesses.
☑️Choose the right participatory tool.

Align resources with the problem, not the other way around.
#DeliberativeDemocracy #ProblemSolving