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Citizens' assembly

Citizens' assembly is a group of people selected by lottery from the general population to deliberate on important public questions so as to exert an influence. Other names and variations of deliberative mini-publics include citizens' jury, citizens' panel, people's panel, people's jury, policy jury, consensus conference and citizens' convention.

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Citizens' assembly

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Triples70
Avg. degree1.98
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Citizens' assembly

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related to Deliberation · 13
Citizens' assembly → Additionally, As, Assemblies, British Columbia, Consensus, Deliberation, Deliberative, Fishkin, For, However, Irish, Irish Citizens' Assembly, Resources
related to Precursors · 11
Citizens' assembly → According, Aristotle, Athenian, Herodotus, Mogens Herman Hansen, Most Athenians, Most Greek, Pericles, Plato, Several, The
related to Functions · 6
Citizens' assembly → Assembly, In, Modern, Sometimes, The, Though
related to Canada · 5
Citizens' assembly → British Columbia, Canada, Ontario, Pioneering, While
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Citizens' assembly → group of people selected by lottery from the general population to deliberate on important public questions so as to exert an influence

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Citizens' assemblyis agroup of people selected by lottery from the general population to deliberate on important public questions so as to exert an influence0.90text
genderinstance ofthis time ensuring that the final group broadly reflects the community with regard to certain criteria0.80text
ageinstance ofthis time ensuring that the final group broadly reflects the community with regard to certain criteria0.80text
geographicinstance ofthis time ensuring that the final group broadly reflects the community with regard to certain criteria0.80text
and socioeconomic statusinstance ofthis time ensuring that the final group broadly reflects the community with regard to certain criteria0.80text
amongst othersinstance ofthis time ensuring that the final group broadly reflects the community with regard to certain criteria0.80text
through the use of secret ballots to help keep citizens from becoming public figuresinstance ofThis is typically done in a voting process0.80text
able to vote their conscience.ApplicationÉtienne Chouard argues that elected officials have a conflict of interest when it comes to creating the rules by which power is distributed in a democracyinstance ofThis is typically done in a voting process0.80text
such as in drafting constitutionsinstance ofThis is typically done in a voting process0.80text
able to vote their conscienceinstance ofThis is typically done in a voting process0.80text
voting to determine officesinstance ofit was used together with other methods0.80text
Montesquieu in his book The Spirit of Lawsinstance ofThe use of sortition as a means of selecting the members of government while receiving praise from notable Enlightenment thinkers0.80text

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