HEALTHY DEMOCRACY

Around the world, governments are employing Lottery-Selected Panels - often called Citizens' Juries or Citizens' Assemblies - to put people at the center of governance. Healthy Democracy has designed and convened panels in five U.S. states and three countries since 2008. We are best known for Oregon's Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), which is one of the most researched deliberative processes in the world and was one of the first modern lottery-selected panels... We aim to build faith in democratic governance by showing how, across all our difference, we can work productively and fairly together. We design our programs with these underlying values... We bring a representative random sample of voters together to study ballot measures.These everyday citizens hear testimony from both sides and from independent experts. And then draft high-quality information for their fellow voters.

Primary location: Milwaukie United States