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Manage subsidiarity
Ability to host decentralized processes simultaneously or sequentially and productively distill them into one central process.
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers address challenges of scale and time by connecting sequences or parallel processes in a predetermined logical manner. Different methods may be explored to engage different groups at different times.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assembly organizers operate assemblies that address the same or different aspects of the issue and then develop a principled way of reconciling the work done in the different processes, sometimes by taking a subset of representatives or by completely merging.
Related Resources
Research
Federated Assemblies: representation guarantees across subsidiary panels
Federated Assemblies research explores algorithms for ensuring representation guarantees across subsidiary panels.
Experimental Practice
South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Citizens' Juries
The South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Citizens' Juries featured one jury completing a task that fed into a subsequent larger jury (2016).
Practice
Le Grand Débat National
A national consultation initiative launched by the French government in January-March 2019 in response to the Yellow Vests protests, inviting citizens to discuss taxation, public services, environmental issues, and democratic governance. Employed multiple engagement channels including town halls,...
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