Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens
to make key decisions about the design of political institutions
and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked
on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160
near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the
province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens'
Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power
to reform fundamental political institutions. It was an innovative
gamble that has been replicated elsewhere in Canada and in the
Netherlands, and is gaining increasing attention in Europe as a
democratic alternative for constitution-making and constitutional
reform. In the USA, advocates view citizens' assemblies as a means
for reforming referendum processes. This book investigates the
citizens' assembly in British Columbia to test and refine key
propositions of democratic theory and practice.
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