Publications

Civic arts in a transnational peoples' assembly : a 'democratic odyssey'

This thesis investigates how civic arts can reimagine participation in a transnational People’s Assembly, through the case of the Democratic Odyssey—a travelling pan-European experiment toward a permanent Citizens’ Assembly. Blending ethnography, creative practice, and practitioner insight, it traces how methods like participatory theatre, ritual, and collective art-making were embedded into the assemblies in Athens and Florence.

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Should a citizens' assembly complement the European Parliament?

In this GLOBALCIT forum debate, Kalypso Nicolaidis proposes a plan to create a European Citizens’ Assembly (ECA) with some major innovative features.

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“Technocratic democratisation” : what can we learn from the European Commission’s new generation European citizens’ panels?

This paper delves into the “new generation” European Citizens Panels (ECPs) convened by the European Commission during Spring 2023 on three issue areas, namely food waste, virtual worlds, and learning mobility. The analysis encompasses the genealogy, methodology, and achievements of the “new generation” ECPs, underscoring the inherently top-down nature of the process. 

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Evaluating the conference on the future of Europe : inclusiveness and deliberative quality of the European citizens’ panels

This working paper offers a critical assessment of the first generation of European Citizens’ Panels (ECPs) organized as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) in Autumn 2021 and Winter 2022. Building on direct observation of the Panel 2 “European Democracy/Values and Rights, Rule of Law, Security”, it focuses on ...

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What’s in an experiment?: opportunities and risks for the Conference on the Future of Europe

This brief gathers together proposals put forward by participants in the EUI-STG transnational democracy forum to put forward a document of collective suggestions as “critical friends” of the Conference of the Future of Europe, and the important opportunity it plays for meaningful democratisation.

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