The PIIRS Fung Global Fellows Program and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics proudly co-host: Deliberative Climate Politics: From citizens’ assemblies to responsive democratic systems? WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 | 4:30PM LOUIS A. SIMPSON INTERNATIONAL BLDG, ROOM A71 Are citizens’ assemblies a solution to solve two pressing crises: democratic dissatisfaction and climate emergency? The Citizens’ Convention for Climate, and the Great National Debate in France, or the Conference on the Future of Europe, were attempts presented as new initiatives. Recently, many climate assemblies are or have been organized at the national level, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, etc. These large-scale processes bring together randomly selected ordinary citizens tasked to provide public policy recommendations, after hearing experts and stakeholders, and deliberating among themselves. What are the promises, limitations, and risks of these democratic experimentations?
Howard L. Rosenthal, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of politics, emeritus, and an expert on formal and quantitative political analysis, died on July 28. He was 83.