What methods can best incentivize and enable participation in maxi-public engagements beyond the 'usual suspects'?

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,...

Goni suggests balancing “Big Data” computational methods with “Little Data”—specific examples, quotes, and stories preserving citizens’ actual reasoning—to ensure core threads of wider public opinion are elicited without losing personal nuance. Proposes democratizing data curation through domain ...

Research exploring how LLMs (specifically Claude) can meaningfully enhance Polis conversations, demonstrating that summarization capabilities enable categorically new methods with immense promise to empower the public in collective meaning-making exercises. While highlighting substantial benefits...