Democratic innovations
Democratic innovations are different forms of citizen participation, which aim at improving citizens’ opportunities to engage in decision-making, deliberate on decisions and influence outcomes. Examples of these are deliberative citizen discussions, citizens’ initiatives and participatory budgeting. Democratic innovations can be entirely new inventions, but they can also be novel applications of old methods that supplement and deepen representative democracy, which is based on elections.
In our projects, we focus in particular on organising deliberative citizen discussions. Learn more about active and concluded citizen debates and experiments below.
