User:Gostislav/Evaluate an Article

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Citizens' assembly

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I chose this page for its topic - Citizens Assembly - which has a central role in the modern political theories of more direct forms of democracy and relevant to rethinking popular rule for the 21st century.

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Review by Gostislav

This article is a great read. It gives a fairly comprehensive empirical account of the Citizens Assembly model.

I have a few points on ways that this article could be developed further:


 * It seems that the view against Citizens Assemblies is over represented slightly as seen in the amount of disadvantages listed in comparison to advantages. Some of the listed disadvantages could be argued to be an advantage as well such as with the case of political legitimacy.
 * Can we elaborate on the functions that a Citizens Assembly can take within a modern society through cases where it has been used beyond electoral reform? We could maybe include "constitutional drafting" as in Iceland and for "climate reform" as in France.
 * A summary of the Citizens Convention on Climate in France would be useful in addition to the hyperlink.

Hope this is useful and I might return to make some of these changes myself at a later point.