Trigger processes

Milan has embedded Citizens' Assemblies on Climate as a permanent governance feature with dedicated budget and staffing.

The German-Speaking Region of Belgium has a permanent citizens' council integrated into regional decision-making.

Requires local councils to use deliberative engagement processes to inform the development of their long-term strategic planning.

Mongolia is the first country in the world to legally require Deliberative Polling before its parliament can consider constitutional amendments. This requirement was codified into law in 2017 and has since been used twice — in 2017 and 2023 — to directly shape changes to the country's constitutio...

This guide for public officials and policy makers outlines eight models for institutionalising representative public deliberation to improve collective decision making and strengthen democracy.

The Itinerant Citizen Assembly of Bogota is organized by DemoLab, the Bogotá Open Council Laboratory, with the objective of promoting citizen participation in the management of the city. Through a random process, citizens were selected and invited to participate as social representatives in a del...

Institutes a standing convention of up to 1000 sortitioned residents; Council must debate its recommendations.

Makes the 50-person Citizens' Council a permanent body whose proposals must be tracked by the executive.

A participatory democracy institution where 100 randomly selected residents act directly for municipal policy construction through proposals, wishes, and deliberations submitted to the Paris Council. The assembly operates through four phases: discovery, exploration, development, and co-creation w...