Assembling an Assembly Guide
  • Introduction
    • Why run a Citizens’ Assembly?
    • Why do Citizens’ Assemblies work?
    • Examples of Citizens’ Assemblies
    • Hear from Assembly Members
  • 1. Before the Assembly
    • 1.1 Conditions for success
    • 1.2 Governance: Setting up the team
    • 1.3 Preparing the evaluation
    • 1.4 Designing the Assembly
    • 1.5 The sortition process: Selection by lottery and stratification
    • 1.6 Preparing learning and evidence
  • 2. During the Assembly
    • 2.1 Onboarding Assembly Members
    • 2.2 Facilitating learning and deliberation
    • 2.3 Drafting recommendations and voting
    • 2.4 Delivering recommendations
  • 3. After the Assembly
    • 3.1 Follow-up
    • 3.2 Member aftercare
    • 3.3 Next steps and institutionalisation
  • Resources
  • Glossary
  • Your feedback
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How to cite this guide?

DemocracyNext (2023) “Assembling an Assembly: A how-to guide“, https://assemblyguide.demnext.org/.

Acknowledgements

This guide was written by Ieva Česnulaitytė and Claudia Chwalisz, with input from Lucy Reid, James MacDonald-Nelson, and Ansel Herz. We are grateful to Irene Alonso Toucido (FIDE), Doreen Grove (Scottish Government), Arantxa Mendiharat (Deliberativa), Jonathan Mosković (Francophone Brussels Parliament), Kyle Redman (newDemocracy), and Graham Smith (University of Westminster) for their feedback. 

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