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Saturday Extra - Full program podcastAustralia Votes: Election Day 2025Nick Bryant head to the marginal seat of Bennelong in Sydney and does a health check on the state of Australian democracy with the ANU's Dr Jill Sheppard and Iain Walker from NewDemocracy Foundation.Plus, Australia's theatre community is buzzing after the Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray received 6 Tony Award nominations, and political commentator and author Peter Beinart on his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.2025-05-021h 15

Humans of Purpose336 Polly Cameron: Change PoliticsPolly Cameron This week on the podcast, I’m thrilled to bring you my conversation with Polly Cameron. Polly is the Director of Change Politics. Change Politics is a public awareness and advocacy campaign all about Citizens’ Assemblies. They’re non-partisan and policy agnostic. Essentially what they care (and advocate about) is a better way to make decisions. They’re philanthropically funded through the newDemocracy Foundation. Our Sponsor Neon Treehouse is our major sponsor and partner in production. They are the go to full service digital marketing agency in Australia, for bright an...2024-07-0147 min

UN WeeklyIn a fractured world, how is the UN supporting democracy?2024 is a bumper year for elections, affecting around two billion voters. However, elections don’t necessarily equate to democracy, and the extent to which they actually affect the way a country is run, and by whom, can vary dramatically, depending on where they’re held.On this week’s show, Conor Lennon and Sachin Gaur from UN News are joined by Yoshita Singh from Press Trust of India, to talk about democracy, misinformation, and yoga (the International Day of Yoga is on June 26)!Guests this week are Iain Walker from newDemocracy and Sarah Lister, Head of Gov...2024-06-2128 min

It is Discernable®Iain Walker: How to Stop Playing PoliticsSomething in politics is broken. We all know it. Politicians have become masters of getting elected whilst getting nothing done in the real world. Is there a way to get them to focus on solving actual problems rather than chasing polls and keeping their jobs? Iain Walker is the Executive Director of the New Democracy Foundation, an independent research organisation that designs and implements 'citizen juries' to various levels of government around the world. In this interview we explored how citizen assemblies are making an impact globally, gradually becoming...2024-02-171h 13

Redneck Gone Green PodcastPodcast - How We Save Democracy: the case for Sortition with Terry BouriciusHi folks!We’ve got a really great episode for you this week. Terry Bouricius joins us to discuss some amazing topics such as “rational ignorance”. He explains why low information voters are doing the rational thing by not caring about elections and how that ensures ballot initiatives are just another PR stunt by the rich and powerful.He points out that elections aren’t the same as democracy - a fact that was well known for thousands of years - and how they were intentionally used as a way to prevent popular rule.And im...2024-01-1252 min

The reMAKERsSeason 3: Episode 10What do a grandmother’s advice on ants, a time machine and an iceberg have in common? According to Dr Vishnu Prahalad, they’re all part of what it means for us to live more sustainably, by learning to think in terms of systems. On this episode of the reMAKERS, we talk to Dr Prahalad: a conservationist, ecologist, systems thinker, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania.Dr Prahalad connects different fields – from environmental management and geography to history, politics and economics – that need to come...2023-10-2330 min

The Trans-AtlanticistA Better Democracy Is Possible Part 2: From Theory to Real World Applicationwith Andrew Sola, Antoine Vergne, and Ahmed Radi Teleb In Episode 2 of A Better Democracy Is Possible, Antoine Vergne from Missions Publique and our sortition expert Ahmed Radi Teleb continue the conversation about new democracy initiatives. They highlight current efforts by the European Commission to engage citizens throughout the European Union in the EU decision-making process regarding issues such as the reduction of food waste and the future of the internet. Other topics include the feeling of democratic euphoria that results when citizens participate in citizens assemblies as well as the evolutionary basis for democratic deliberation. Additional...2023-02-2435 min

The Trans-AtlanticistA Better Democracy Is Possible Part 1: An Introduction to Sortition and Deliberationwith Andrew Sola, Ahmed Radi Teleb and Antoine Vergne The year 2022 proved to be a hard test for the resilience of democracies, and 2023 continues to test the strength of democracies worldwide. Threats are both external and internal. Authoritarian governments seek to undermine democratic societies with disinformation campaigns from the outside. Or, as in Russia's case, they simply seek to conquer and obliterate their democratic neighbors. Meanwhile, home-grown groups seek to attack democracy from within, through election denialism, conspiracy theories, and political violence. However, there is good news for democracy! It can be seen in a number of...2023-02-1740 min

The Good Question PodcastHow Democratic Is Our Democracy, Really? An Impactful Conversation with Iain Walker“You can pick up a newspaper every day that’s talking about what’s wrong with our democracy, but there aren’t a lot of people talking about what we can do to fix it,” says Iain Walker, Executive Director of Australia’s newDemocracy Foundation. Walker goes beyond the problems of the democratic system to the solutions. Along the way, he shares a whole lot of eye-opening information. Press play to learn: Where democracy started, and whether it’s always involved elections The different between democracy in Ancient Athens and democracy today In what ways democracy...2022-07-0642 min

Florence GuildDemocracy EventHost - Jon Yeo – Head of Curation, TEDxMelbourne Speakers - Yasmin Poole (Youth Advocate), Kyle Redman (newDemocracy Foundation) and Andrea Carson (Political Scientist & Journalist What is Democracy? Recently we've seen democracy take some wild and extraordinary turns. With left and right politics looking more similar than different, it has allowed extreme politics and the vocal minority to hold the interest of the community. Whether we like it or not, it has forced us to think about democracy and wonder if it works in most countries. Has traditional democracy become complacent? Are the needs of the people now too complex for de...2022-04-111h 32

The DeshBhakt With Akash Banerjee2022 & India’s New Democracy Project | Akash BanerjeeAfter being in Beta testing for the last few years - India's 'New Democracy' project is ready to go live in 2022 and may become a global template for other 'democracies' to follow. What is this New Democracy and how does it fit well with New India.... ??? what happened to Old Democracy - where did it fail and how are citizens taking to this new format of Democracy? 🇮🇳 SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS 🇮🇳 - https://www.youtube.com/thedeshbhakt ▶️ ⛔️ BECOME A DESHBHAKT MEMBER - https://www.patreon.com/thedeshbhakt ⛔️ Unlock MEMBER ONLY: 1) Chats 2) Discord Serv...2022-01-0711 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberation around the world with Claudia ChwaliszAs we draw this podcast series to a close, it’s fitting to take a global perspective on public deliberation with Claudia Chwalisz who leads the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation. Claudia is co-authoring a number of influential reports, convening a global network and maintaining an online digest, Participo. LINKS Catching the Deliberate Wave report Leading Deliberative Democracy short course Doing Deliberative Democracy short course Music acknowledgement 2021-03-0228 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsReflections from a participant with Bobbi AllanBobbi Allan was randomly selected for a public deliberation in early 2018. Coincidentally, she has a background as a facilitator so can offer an unusual perspective as she describes the residual effect of a deliberative experience.2021-01-2618 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberation and disability with Rhiann MacLean and Max HardyThis conversation is with Rhiann McLean (in Scotland) and Max Hardy (in Australia). Both are dedicated to amplifying the voices of people with disability—through research and public deliberations.” LINKS Research Voices Citizens’ Jury Video of the Research Voices Citizens’ Jury Report from Research Voices Citizens’ Jury NDIS Citizens’ Jury Video of NDIS Citizens’ Jury Music acknowledgement 2021-01-2136 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsOnline deliberation through Common Ground for Action with Kara Dillard Kara Dillard is an Assistant Professor at James Madison University in the US. She is also the operations specialist for Common Ground for Action (CGA), an online variant of National Issues Forum (NIF). In this episode, Kara explains this short-form process, as well as its strengths and challenges. As a moderator training specialist for NIF she offers insight into the difference between online and face-to-face facilitation. LINKS Kettering Foundation Amy Lee, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University Common Ground for Action: A 90-min Forum in a 5-min Video 2021-01-1244 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsReflecting on deliberation and valuable techniques with Kath Fisher Dr Kath Fisher is an extremely experienced professional facilitator. She is also an academic at Southern Cross University (Lismore, Australia). In this episode, Kath shares some of her journey and offers a number of useful techniques that she uses routinely in public deliberations. Documents Kath referred to in this episode A summary of the report produced from the CSIRO project A copy of an excellent consensus decision making resource she uses in her facilitation An example of a feedback/evaluation form she uses for evaluating citizens’ juries You can find these documents on the newDemocracy Fo...2021-01-0322 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsTools and techniques with Abbie JeffsAbbie Jeffs has a background in urban planning and public policy but was an excellent facilitator in a successful consultancy, Straight-Talk, for many years. She’s now working for a public sector organisation—a loss for the field of public deliberation—although Abbie remains a strong advocate. She has much wisdom to impart in this episode and several terrific tools. LINKS Bliss Browne’s ‘Imagine Chicago’ Tuckman’s stages Visit to newDemocracy’s podcast page to access Kaner’s diverge/converge guide to participatory decision-making. Music acknowledgement 2020-12-2317 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsTools and techniques with Lucy Cole EdelsteinLucy Cole-Edelstein has over 30 years’ experience as an engagement practitioner, as a facilitator and process designer. She established and ran a successful consultancy, Straight-Talk, for some of those years and later sold her company to RPS with whom she now works. In this episode, Lucy shares several activities that build the group’s skill set and pave the way for the choice-work that is integral to public deliberation. Visit newDemocracy’s podcast page to access the DOPE test handout. Music acknowledgement 2020-12-2230 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsFeedback Frames for deliberative processes with Jason DicemanJason Diceman is an experienced facilitator based in Toronto, Canada. He created a very useful tool, Feedback Frames (previously in the form of Idea Rating Sheets and, earlier, Dotmocracy templates). His latest invention enables score-voting on participant-generated ideas, rather than a crude survey or voting tool. It’s being used throughout the world and deserves attention from those who facilitate public deliberations. Music acknowledgement 2020-12-2237 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberative tools and techniques with MosaicLabThis is a conversation with Nicole Hunter, Keith Greaves and Kimbra White, the founders of MosaicLab. It covers what happens in the room with a face-to-face long-form deliberation when MosaicLab facilitators are at work. This episode contains an enormous amount of practical advice: the physical space, co-facilitation, templates, report writing, managing data and conflict, as well as many of the creative activities they use routinely. LINKS Evaluation of youth jury Critical thinking video Music acknowledgement 2020-12-2049 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsThe emotional work of deliberation with Rosa ZubizarretaRosa Zubizarreta is an American group facilitation practitioner and theorist and the founder of DiaPraxis. This episode is a companion piece with a previous episode that featured Jim Rough, the original designer of Dynamic Facilitation and Wisdom Councils. In the conversation with Rosa, the focus is on relational facilitation: attending to the emotional work of deliberation to order to enable a group to fully realise its goals. LINKS Rosa’s website DiaPraxis is where many of her writings can be found Citizens Council: What are they, and why are they so popular in Au...2020-12-0735 min

Cool Collaborations#5 Lyn Carson - Exploring Deliberative Democracy and CollaborationIntroduction:For a change of pace from some of the collaboration-focused conversations I’ve been having so far on the podcast, this episode dives into the arena of deliberative democracy with Dr. Lyn Carson. ‘Carson’ is currently the research director at the newDemocracy Foundation and a former professor in applied politics at the University of Sydney Business School. We explore some of the important aspects of deliberative democratic process with an eye to how they connect to collaboration I’ve been highlighting throughout the various episodes. It often seems that the political systems we have in place...2020-12-0142 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsWisdom Councils and Dynamic Facilitation with Jim RoughJim Rough is a social innovator and Director of the Center for Wise Democracy. Jim Rough started thinking about Dynamic Facilitation in a timber mill in Buffalo, New York. An unlikely beginning for a process that is now embedded in one Austrian state and has been used in multiple countries. This podcast episode explores Dynamic Facilitation and Wisdom Councils and makes connections between choice creation and deliberative democracy. LINKS Dynamic Facilitation website Conversation between Ned Crosby (originator of Citizens’ Juries and Jim Rough originator of Wisdom Councils) Facilitating Inclusion: Australian Wisdom Coun...2020-11-2539 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberation across countries and languages with Dominik HierlemannDominik Hierlemann is a Senior Expert, Participation in Europe at Bertelsmann Stiftung. Dominik heads the project Democracy and Participation in Europe. He facilitates large-scale public deliberations in Europe with multiple languages and diverse cultures. In this episode, we explore the unexpected benefits that can arise from that when facilitation is done well. Music acknowledgement.2020-11-0234 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsCitizens' Initiative Reviews with Linn DavisLinn Davis leads Healthy Democracy’s program development and process design. He coordinates Healthy Democracy’s complex public processes, trains its facilitation teams, and consults on deliberative projects in the U.S. and abroad. In this episode, recorded prior to the pandemic’s impact, Linn explains the Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) and the skills needed for excellent facilitation in volatile political circumstances. Music acknowledgement.2020-10-2344 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberation learning and empathy with Laurie Drake Laurie Drake is an experienced facilitator working as the Director of Research and Learning with MASS LBP in Canada. She comes to facilitation, as many do, via teaching and this explains her strong focus on the learning elements of deliberative processes. Laurie is passionate about the power of deliberative mini-publics to improve democracy broadly and for individuals. In Episode 8 we interviewed Peter MacLeod also from MASS LBP about their approach to designing and delivering deliberative processes. Music acknowledgement.2020-10-0832 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsA scientific perspective on deliberation with Chris FormanDr Chris Foreman graduated in 1999 with a Masters in theoretical physics from Edinburgh University. He spent four years doing defence research in the UK, first with DERA and then QinetiQ in satellite communications before returning to education in Cambridge in 2004 to complete a Masters in Nanotechnology and a PhD in Protein Engineering at Cambridge University UK graduating in 2010. He took two postdocs - one in bio-inspired manufacturing and one in computational simulations of proteins. He moved to the US for a research position at Northwestern University in 2016 and currently he researches how to build computers out of c...2020-09-2900 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberation planning with Anna KeldermanUnusually for a town planner, Anna Kelderman does her own facilitation of engagement processes and sees it as a natural and effective way to do town planning. She wishes more of her planning colleagues would do their own public deliberations with diverse groups to co-design their futures. In this episode, Anna shares what she has learnt and some of her project successes in Western Australia.2020-09-1800 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsPerspectives on Facilitation from Scott NewtonA slice of history since this was recorded with Scott Newton a year-and-a-half ago when he was less experienced with public deliberations than he is now. However, it’s illuminating to hear the voice of a rookie. Even though Scott was familiar with facilitating workshops and public meetings, this conversation follows his first foray into the world of public deliberations, co-facilitating a citizens’ jury. Scott is a very accurate observer of group process and the key role of the facilitator. LINKS Here’s a link to another conversation – one that Scott had with a CJ particip...2020-09-1000 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsNew to deliberative democracy the Madrid Observatorio with Arantxa MendiharatArantxa Mendiharat was relatively new to the field of deliberative democracy when this was recorded in May 2019. She was also involved with an exciting project in Madrid that she helped design and implement — a combination of direct and deliberative democracy that was written into the city’s laws. Arantxa has gained a great deal of experience and knowledge since then and plays a significant role in the international network, Democracy R&D, as well as establishing, with others, a new NGO in Spain, Deliberativa (in Spanish only). LINKS newDemocracy R&D Note...2020-09-0200 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsLearning from an experienced facilitator with Max HardyMax Hardy was one of the earliest adopters in Australia of deliberative methods such as citizens’ juries. Currently, he is working primarily with local and state governments and government authorities. After many years Max has retained his early enthusiasm for facilitating public deliberations, in particular collaborating with citizens in order to deal with complexity. Here Max shares some of the important lessons that he has learned over several decades. LINKS Jason Diceman’s Feedback Frames Music acknowledgement.2020-08-2600 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsThe skills of an experienced facilitator with Marcia Dwonczyk Marcia Dwonczyk has been facilitating for decades and it shows. Her tremendous experience will be invaluable for those who are new to facilitating public deliberations. Marcia’s primary role is on the Leadership Team of the international Partnership Brokers Association but she has also facilitated a number of public deliberations in Australia. Here she compares and contrasts the differences between working with diverse stakeholders and randomly-selected strangers, supporting each group to explore their common ground. LINKS The Partnership Brokers Association Handouts: The Dynamics of Group Decision Making, The Role of the Fac...2020-08-1100 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsFacilitation and open government with Don LenihanDr Don Lenihan is Co-Chair of Open Government Partnership’s Practice Group on Dialogue and Deliberation. He is an extremely-experienced facilitator with a willingness to share his immense experience with others. Much of his thinking, along with input from others in seven countries, can be found in the guides developed by the OGP Practice Group. He covers some of that helpful content in this podcast episode. LINKS Middle Ground (Don’s consultancy) https://www.middlegroundengagement.com/personal-profile/ You can find the three guides referred to in the conversation here 2020-08-0400 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsLong-form deliberation perspectives from experienced and new facilitators with Kaela Scott and Dominic WardKaela Scott and Dominic Ward from Involve UK come together in this episode to share their experience of facilitating long-form deliberations like citizens’ assemblies. They cover how to structure one and how to adapt that plan for different circumstances. They also offer their experience of facilitation training: one as an extremely experienced facilitator and trainer, the other as an enthusiastic beginner. Music acknowledgement.2020-07-2800 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsPart 2 Techniques for deliberation with Wendy FaulknerWendy Faulkner has an academic background as well as an enormous amount of practical wisdom to offer in this conversation which has been split into part (1) and part (2) because of its length. Wendy and her colleagues have produced an incredibly useful handbook that they generously share with others, and also offer some excellent facilitation training from their base in Scotland. LINKS How to design and plan public engagement processes: a handbook Dialogue in Public Engagement: A Handbook IAP2 Spectrum Music acknowledgement.2020-07-2000 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsPart 1, Planning a deliberative process with Wendy FaulknerWendy Faulkner has an academic background as well as an enormous amount of practical wisdom to offer in this conversation which has been split into part (1) and part (2) because of its length. Wendy and her colleagues have produced an incredibly useful handbook that they generously share with others, and also offer some excellent facilitation training from their base in Scotland. LINKS How to design and plan public engagement processes: a handbook Dialogue in Public Engagement: A Handbook IAP2 Spectrum Music acknowledgement.2020-07-1500 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsAnalysing deliberation with André BãchtigerAndré Bãchtiger has been researching the way people deliberate for 20 years. In this episode, he shares some fascinating findings from formal spaces such as parliamentary environments in Switzerland, as well as a deep analysis undertaken of a Deliberative Poll in Europe. André uses the Discourse Quality Index to explain the way people deliberate together. LINKS Journal of Deliberative Democracy Europolis project Mary (Molly) Scudder to find link to her book Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation Music acknowledgement.2020-07-1000 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsThe thrill of facilitation with Kathy JonesKathy Jones has had decades of experience with community consultation and stakeholder engagement. She is currently a director of The newDemocracy Foundation (as is the interviewer). This conversation covers the thrill of facilitation at the micro-level and its specialist nature, including the distinction between stakeholder engagement and deliberative democracy. Kathy also looks toward systemic change when she imagines possibilities at the macro level. Post-COVID, she speculates that there is a real opportunity right now to build a greater understanding and appreciation of civic responsibility. LINKS KJA – the firm that Kathy founded 2020-07-0100 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDialogue & Deliberation at the system level with Simon BurallIn this episode, Simon Burall, Senior Associate with Involve (UK), explores the institutional arrangements that might effectively bring the public into important decisions about science and technological innovation. This is less about how to facilitate a public deliberation and more about the creation of a deliberative system by effectively combining public dialogue and public deliberation elements. LINKS Nuffield Council of Bioethics Simon Burall’s “Room for a View: Democracy as a Deliberative System” Deliberative Systems Thinking (citing John Dryzek’s work) Steven Lukes – Power: A Radical View Ortw...2020-06-2400 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsTools & Techniques - ORID with Vivien TwyfordVivien Twyford has been at the forefront of public engagement in Australasia, and internationally, for decades. She established Twyfords in 1988. In this conversation, the focus is on a particular tool, ORID. Vivien describes how she used this tool for a difficult conversation about bushfire recovery. Her approach has relevance for all situations of disaster or crisis management. Power of Co: The Smart Leaders’ Guide to Collaborative Governance https://www.amazon.com/Power-Co-Leaders-Collaborative-Governance/dp/0646579169 ORID handout (visit https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/category/library/podcast/) for this handout. 2020-06-1900 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsOnline deliberation - evaluation with Dannica FleussThis episode ranges from the democratic potential of the online world to an examination of several particular cases. Dr Dannica Fleuß and her fellow researchers looked at three different online spaces and evaluated them for the quality and forms of their communication. Do different online spaces in a deliberative system affect how people talk and reason? Dannica Fleuß discusses these findings and more in this episode. Different Arenas, Different Deliberative Quality? Using a Systemic Framework to Evaluate Online Deliberation on Immigration Policy in Germany by Katharina Esau Dannica Fleuß and Sarah‐Michelle Nienhaus. Here is the li...2020-06-1000 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsPart 2 Online deliberation - group cohesion with Viv McWatersThis is a conversation in two parts with Chad Foulkes from Liminal by Design and Viv McWaters from Creative Facilitation, both of whom are skilled facilitators. The aim was to replicate an earlier brainstorming session that took place among a larger group of facilitators. The discussion is about how to use the ‘marginal times’ to create group cohesion online. New ideas emerged throughout the conversation, as well as recalling many that were borrowed from others. About Dark Angels writing: https://darkangelswriters.com/about/approach/ The Naked Facilitator on-line series: http://thenakedfacilitator.mystri...2020-06-0100 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsPart 1 Online deliberation - building group cohesion with Chad Foulkes and Viv McWatersThis is a conversation in two parts with Chad Foulkes from Liminal by Design and Viv McWaters from Creative Facilitation, both of whom are skilled facilitators. The aim was to replicate an earlier brainstorming session that took place among a larger group of facilitators. The discussion is about how to use the ‘marginal times’ to create group cohesion online. New ideas emerged throughout the conversation, as well as recalling many that were borrowed from others. About Dark Angels writing: https://darkangelswriters.com/about/approach/ The Naked Facilitator on-line series: http://thenakedfacilitator.mystri...2020-05-2800 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsOnline deliberation - design questions with Susanna Haas LyonsSusanna Haas Lyons has 15 years’ experience, designing and facilitating in both face-to-face and online environments. Here she generously shares her knowledge of multiple tools, as well as expressing her deep concern about how best to achieve equity and include diverse input, as well as building civic capacity. LINKS FOR RESOURCES MENTIONED BY SUSANNA National Issues Forum Common Ground for Action Online Forums Digital Engagement Social Media & Public Participation IAP2 Canada white paper written by Susanna Haas Lyons Public Participation Technology in a Time of social dist...2020-05-1900 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsOnline deliberation - learning online with Leanne Piggott Leanne Piggott is an award-winning and highly-skilled curriculum designer and university teacher. Public deliberations require deep learning by participants who come to a gathering with different levels of knowledge and understanding about a topic. As facilitators increasingly move public deliberations online, understanding the principles of transformative learning has become even more important. Anything less keeps us in the domain of opinion collection only and deliberative democracy promises so much more than that. Leanne Piggott shares her approach to adult learning in this interview. It will be of value to all deliberative designers. Leanne refers to...2020-05-0700 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsOnline Deliberation - a case study with Emily JenkeEmily Jenke is a very experienced facilitator of public deliberations. She is a Co CEO of democracyCo. In early 2020 she was taken out of her comfort zone when Covid-19 forced the world into physical isolation. Emily and her colleagues were mid-project, having started face to face. They were now forced online. This episode is one facilitator’s story. Emily Jenke, previously sceptical about deliberation online, began with trepidation and finished with enthusiasm. Emily shares the lessons that she learnt here and in her blog. Music acknowledgement.2020-05-0500 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsOnline Deliberation - Opportunities and Challenges with Graham Smith Professor Graham Smith is a Professor in Politics at the University of Westminster, London. Graham has a wealth of experience with deliberative democracy. The COVID-19 pandemic led to some swift re-design among those who facilitate face-to-face public deliberations. In this episode, Graham Smith raises many interesting questions and offers some warnings as well. But, importantly, the conversation ends with a level of excitement about the potential for deliberative designers to radically improve the practice of public deliberations through online experimentation. Music acknowledgement.2020-04-2800 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsFacilitator training with Oliver EscobarDr Oliver Escobar is an academic at the University of Edinburgh and has offered training in facilitation for public deliberations for more than a decade. It is this training that provides the focus of the podcast conversation. Oliver is unusual because of this combination of scholarship and being an experienced trainer. In this interview, he explains the background and theory behind the training program, as well as the people who offer themselves for learning and considerable detail about the training itself. Oliver and his team are growing the field of skilled UK facilitators in very impressive ways.2020-04-1400 min

Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg331: Iain WalkerWhat if there was a better way for us to do democracy? A more representative way? A way that would take corporate influence out of politics?Iain Walker is Executive Director of the newDemocracy Foundation.find out more about what they do at newdemocracy.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2020-04-051h 22

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDeliberative processes and democracy with Matthew Taylor Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of RSA, an organisation whose people are thinking about new models for change, influencing policymakers, practitioners and the public to effect long-lasting change. In this podcast, recorded in 2019, Matthew talks about building mandates for change while ‘thinking like a system and acting like an entrepreneur’. The RSA has deliberative democracy as a core strategy to address anachronistic ways of governing, as well as winning legitimacy for political decisions. The conversation travels from Ancient Athens to contemporary UK and RSA’s strong advocacy for public deliberation. RSA Matthew's blog RSA...2020-04-0300 min

Business Sydney PodcastTrust me! How to Generate Trust Right NowAs customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, policy makers and key stakeholders trust is critical right now as we navigate one of the biggest challenges in a generation.For 20 years Edelman has been monitoring the changes and influences of trust in the four societal institutions - government, business, NGOs and media.Hear more about the findings of the 2020 Trust Barometer, including an update on impact of COVID -19, from Susan Redden Makatoa, Managing Director, Edelman and take the opportunity to discuss the paradox and implications for business with our panel of business leaders.PRESENTATION BYSusan Redden...2020-04-0158 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsWhen to use deliberative mini-publics with Iain Walker and Nicole HunterTwo seasoned players in the deliberative field: one from a research foundation, the other from a consulting firm. Iain Walker (newDemocracy Foundation) and Nicole Hunter (Mosaic Lab) bring a wealth of experience to a discussion about public deliberations. They explore: identifying the policy challenge, timeliness, convincing elected representatives, knowing what the most appropriate process would be, what commitment is the decision-maker prepared to make and challenges that arise with polarised communities. They also, together, reflect on facilitation that works well, Nicole as an experienced facilitator, Iain as an observer of many mini-publics. 2020-03-1100 min

Designing Open DemocracyIsegoria: The Way Citizens' Juries Deliver It, How Elections Destroy It (Nicholas Gruen: CEO of Lateral Economics)Hi and welcome to the Designing Open Democracy Podcast. We are an Australian based forum keeping track of democracy innovations in Australia and around the world.For this episode recorded on the 3rd of March 2020, I visited a prominent Australian economist named Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics.As frequent commentator on economic reform as well as innovation, he will be joining us for this episode to explore the concept of Citizens' Juries and how it could be implemented in Australia and other countries.Here is some links and concepts referenced in this talk:Considered Opinion...2020-03-081h 18

Facilitating Public DeliberationsMASS LBP's approach with Peter MacLeodBritish Columbia led the way with a citizens’ assembly in 2004, a deliberative method which has been deeply influential among deliberative democrats. In 2006 a similar process, the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform was undertaken in Ontario. Peter MacLeod was part of the secretariat that oversaw the Students' Assembly on Electoral Reform which ran alongside the Ontario Citizens' Assembly and whose findings were presented to the Citizens' Assembly. Peter has applied the principles of those democratic innovations to make it a routine occurrence in Canada. He’s done this through his efforts with MASS LBP over the past...2020-02-2600 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsFrom large to small scale public deliberation with Janette Hartz-Karp Janette Hartz-Karp has decades of experience as an academic and as an award-winning deliberative practitioner. She has an enormous amount to teach others. She is one of the most experienced facilitators of public deliberations in the world, having designed and conducted many, many trials of mini-publics. Many of these were designed and convened for an elected minister in the Western Australian Government, as well as with decision-makers in other countries. In this podcast, Janette generously shares her knowledge and experience about the distinctive elements that arise depending on the task that is being undertaken by...2020-02-1800 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsDemocratic Theory and the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly with Mark WarrenMark Warren is a political scientist based in North America whose original interest in democracy theory broadened to encompass deliberative democracy when he studied the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly in 2004. Mark’s analysis of that case study and all that followed has been extremely influential in the field. In this conversation, Mark wonders aloud about the resistance to using deliberative methods on the part of politicians even though bureaucrats are increasingly seeing their advantages, i.e. to help them do their job better. He cautions deliberative designers to pay close attention to a clea...2020-02-1100 min

The FutureSeeds PodcastUpgrading Democracy, with Lyn CarsonLyn Carson is a professor in applied politics, specialized in deliberative democracy, and the lead researcher at NewDemocracy. NewDemocracy’s mission is stated as follows: “NewDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organization; we aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making” In this interview, we talk about a number of different topics related to democracy, and I found it truly impassioning because Carson delivers insight into the structural changes and the processes that are necessary to harness public intelligence and decide altogether of our future. She details...2020-02-0959 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsThe intersection of theory & practice with John GastilThis is part two of a conversation with John Gastil during which the history and practice of deliberative democracy is explored. What interests John and Carson is the way in which theory and practice intersect. They reflect on their own academic journeys and also note the many scholars and practitioners who have defined this field of endeavour. Both are clearly inspired and excited by any robust practices that work and that can be supported by solid theory. They share an ambition: to advance abstract theory and to simultaneously improve the quality and vibrancy of democracy.2020-01-2800 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsConsensus Conferences with Lars KlüverLars Klüver, is a skilled innovator, designer and convenor of public deliberations and has been for more than 30 years. His work with the Danish Board of Technology, was an early inspiration for many deliberative designers with his Consensus Conference method—a modification of an approach used in the US among scientists. Klüver understood the importance of expert knowledge but also the importance of bringing citizens into the mix, especially when considering future technologies. Since then he has experimented with Citizen Summits for policy direction, and World Wide Views, an ambitious global project. Klüver i...2020-01-1500 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsPlanning Cells with Hans-Liudger Dienel Hans-Liudger Dienel spoke with Carson about the work of his father Peter Dienel who developed the planning cells model of deliberative engagement in the early 1970s and which Hans has continued to work with through the Nexus Institute in Germany. Hans identifies that his father was a missionary for planning cells. Planning cells began out of Peter’s experience in the church. Planning cells were standardised to maximise acceptance of the process. Planning cells have 25 citizens on each and often multiple planning cells are run in parallel sessions, with expert speakers followed by un-facilitated small group work to deliberate on the...2020-01-0600 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsCitizens' Juries with Ned Crosby and Pat BennNed Crosby is the American inventor of Citizens' Juries. He and his wife Pat Benn have supported and developed these processes over many years. In this interview, he and Pat talk about the development of the process, its refinement over the years and the more recent development of Citizens' Initiative Review in Oregon. Ned created the citizens' jury process in 1971 in response to his concerns about moral relativism. He decided to ask a randomly selected group of citizens to reason and consider issues. It wasn’t until the 1980s that academics started writing about using randomly selected citizens to deliberate witho...2020-01-0600 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsThe history of deliberative mini-publics with John GastilIn this episode, Carson speaks with Professor John Gastil from Penn State University about the history and development of deliberative mini-publics. John is the author of many books and papers on deliberative democracy including Democracy in Small Groups and is currently undertaking research on the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review and has a book coming out about this research soon. John identifies that the term mini-public has become a term of art and means a randomly selected group with a focused charge, although there is a lot of varieties to how these processes are designed. The core idea of deliberation is ‘weighi...2020-01-0600 min

Facilitating Public DeliberationsFacilitating Public DeliberationsWelcome to the Facilitating Public Deliberations podcast. In this series, we will be talking with practitioners, advocates and academics about the history of public deliberations and the various approaches to facilitating them. 2020-01-0400 min

Centre for Independent StudiesThe Crisis Of Democracy | Events at CISFor generations, we just assumed democracy is fixed and given. However, all across the world, democracies are sick and suffering from a crisis of confidence. Polls show just a third of Australians are satisfied with the way our democracy is working. Public trust in our politicians is at record lows. So, how do we restore faith in democracy? Is there too much corporate and foreign money involved in the electoral process? Is the noisy and relentless media cycle the cause of the problem or the symptom? Is political polarization likely to get worse? How do we attract better elected representatives...2018-11-231h 23

Sydney IdeasDemarchy for Better Public PolicyDemocracy depends on sound public opinion about the major issues of the day. Today these issues are of unprecedented complexity and difficulty, requiring serious deliberation and decision making, and the need to move beyond the factional struggles and attempts to win over key parcels of votes we see dominating politics today. What we need is well considered public opinion to set the agenda for the politicians, and demarchy is a new proposal on how this can be done. Author of The Demarchy Manifesto former University of Sydney Professor of Philosophy, John Burnheim joins us for a special conversation about the...2017-10-231h 34

Real Democracy Now! a podcastLegislature by Lot with Professor John GastilWelcome to episode 3 in Season 3 of Real Democracy Now! a podcast. Season 3 is about elections, electoral systems, electoral reform and alternatives. In this episode I’m speaking with Professor John Gastil. John is a Professor in the Communication Arts and Sciences and Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University as well as a Senior Scholar in the McCourtney Institute for Democracy. He studies political deliberation and group decision making across a range of contexts. Recently John and Erik Olin Wright, as part of the Real Utopias project, held a three-day workshop called Legislature by Lot. Thanks to David Schecter I was...2017-10-0455 min

Florence GuildEp 04: Starship Enterprise and Steamship Democracy - Luca Belgiorno-NettisSpeaker Luca Belgiorno-Nettis Type Live Conversation About this conversation When ‘Starship Enterprise’ took off 250 years ago, the middle classes began to make the modern world with accelerating speed and yes, it must be said, with some adverse consequences. But there is no better spaceship, no better sputnik, known to mankind. Working and trading are fundamental to human relations. But business doesn’t usually factor in negative effects to the community at large – what economists euphemistically call ‘externalities’. For example, cities need open space, which business doesn’t address. Therefore ‘Steamship Democracy’ is needed alongside ‘Enterprise’. It’s a steamship, because it’s slower, but it actu...2017-08-0128 min

Real Democracy Now! a podcast1.17 Participants in deliberative mini-publicsIn today's episode I speak with four everyday people who have been participants in deliberative mini-publics in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Each person has their own unique take on being a randomly selected participant in a deliberative mini-public, but they all agree they would recommend being part of a deliberative mini-public to family and friends. First up is Ben McPeek who was a member of the Residents’ Reference Panel for the Davenport Community Rail Overpass project in 2015. This Reference Panel was commissioned by Metrolinx and designed and facilitated by MASS LBP. I spoke to Peter MacLeod fr...2017-01-2242 min

Real Democracy Now! a podcast1.9 The essence of a real democracy - some perspectivesI have asked all of my guests what they think is the essence of a real democracy. In this episode I showcase their responses. Professor Carson sees the essence of a real democracy as being about self government and trust. Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, founder of the newDemocracy Foundation, agreed that people should be able to govern themselves. Professor Janette Hartz-Karp from Curtin University in Western Australia highlighted the need to consider the common good co-designed by the people. Peter MacLeod from MASS LBP in Canada talked about giving citizens a role between elections with more opportunities for citizens to be involved. Associat...2016-11-2720 min

Real Democracy Now! a podcast1.7 Designing & delivering deliberative mini-publics with the newDemocracy FoundationThe newDemocracy Foundation is a is an independent, non-partisan research organisation here is Australia that aims to identify improvements to our democratic process with a focus on promoting deliberative mini-publics as a key democratic reform. Iain Walker is the Executive Director of the newDemocracy Foundation and has designed and managed over twenty deliberative mini-publics for local and State Governments in Australia. Iain explains the approach newDemocracy Foundation takes to the design of deliberative mini-publics generally and also sets out the example of the Melbourne People's Panel a 43 person deliberative mini-public, involving both residents and businesses, whi...2016-11-1415 min

Real Democracy Now! a podcast1.4 Explaining the popularity of deliberative mini-publicsDeliberative mini-publics are a popular form of democratic innovation around the world. In today's episode I talk to a range of people to get their perspectives on what is behind this popularity. Professor Graham Smith is a Professor of Politics in the Centre for the Study of Democracy, in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London. Professor Janette Hartz-Karp, from the Sustainability Policy Unit at Curtin University in Western Australia. Janette is renowned nationally and internationally for her innovative work in community engagement and deliberative democracy. Lu...2016-10-2419 min

WalkleyTalks PodcastPublic Knowledge Forum: Common GroundIn conjunction with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and Sky News Australia’s APAC, the Walkley Foundation is delighted to present this series of six podcasts from the Public Knowledge Forum examining the state of journalism and asking: where to next? In a world of fragmented audiences and time-shifted media consumption, has our shared understanding been undermined? Who determines what information is considered important after the traditional bundle of news has been dismantled? Does an increased reliance on niche and partisan news sources change people’s relationship to politics? What, if any, implications does this have...2013-11-1452 min