Full background materials can be found here. Links to individual readings and projects can be found below:

• Leaders or Latecomers? Exploring the Role of Politicians in Democratic Innovation, Apolitical Foundation, Omezzine Khelifa and Jon Alexander

• Circular Power Politics: A Politician’s Guide to Five Opportunities to Lead With and For the People, Apolitical Foundation, Omezzine Khelifa and Jon Alexander

• Riding the Waves of Democracy Innovation, the National Civic League, Matt Leighninger

• Putting the Public Back in Public Policy, Noema Magazine, Marjan Ehsassi and Dawn Nakagawa

• Congress Must Keep Pace With AI, Brennan Center for Justice, Maya Kornberg, Marci Harris, and Aubrey Wilson

• Integrating Participatory Budgeting and Institutionalized Citizens’ Assemblies: A community Driven Perspective, the National Civic League, Nick Vlahos

• Reversing the Democratic Gaze, Carnegie Europe and the European Partnership for Democracy, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Richard Youngs

• Mere Mortals: The State of Politicians’ Health and Wellbeing and Why It Matters, Apolitical Foundation

• Deliberative Committees - A new approach to deliberation between citizens and politicians in Brussels, Francophone Parliament of Brussels, Jonathan Moskovic

• Canadian Citizens' Assembly on Democratic Expression (CADE), Mass LBP, Sarah Yaffe

• Youth Assembly on Digital Rights and Safety, Mass LBP, Sarah Yaffe

• OurCare: a national conversation about the future of primary care, Mass LBP, Sarah Yaffe

• The Deliberative Integrity Project, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Nicole Curato

• The Global Citizens‘ Assembly Network, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Nicole Curato

• AI in war: Can advanced military technologies be tamed before it’s too late?, Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Steven Feldstein

• The Consequences of Generative AI for Democracy, Governance and War, Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Steven Feldstein

• LATINNO, Center for Civil Society Research WZB, Thamy Pogrebinschi

• Innovating Democracy? The Means and Ends of Citizen Participation in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Thamy Pogrebinschi

• AI Strategy & Implementation Flash Reports, Committee on House Administration, Jessica Smith, Detailee, Artificial Intelligence Strategy

• Select Committee pilots on participatory democracy at the UK Parliament, IPEN International Parliament Engagement Network