Podcasts by Democratic Constitutional Design

Democratic Constitutional Design

This podcast is dedicated to the idea of constitutions and constitutional change as a forum for public engagement and democratic innovation. The podcast features interviews with academics and activists from Iceland and many other countries and people who participated in the innovative efforts of 2009 to 2013 to revise the Icelandic constitution.

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Democratic Constitutional Design
Deliberative Poll on the Constitution of Iceland from 2020-10-07T15:45:53

Sævar Finnbogason talks to Jón Ólafsson and Valgerður Björk Pálsdóttir from the DCD research team about the lessons from the Deliberative Poll on the constitution of Iceland, convened by Iceland...

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Participation and long-term decision-making from 2020-03-20T16:55:05

Is participatory deliberative democracy suited for long term decision-making? Maija Setälä and her colleagues are currently working with our regional government in south-east Finland where the g...

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Citizens review panels to the rescue? from 2020-03-20T16:41:54

Referendums raise questions about voters’ access to reliable information and considered arguments in this age of social media and polarization. In this episode Sævar Finnbogason talks to profess...

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Can Citizen Assemblies strengthen democracy? from 2020-02-19T17:23:14

Citizen Assemblies and Deliberative Polls on various issues have been conducted in many countries all over the world and there is also growing interest in other forms of Sortition mini-publics. ...

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Citizen Assemblies and Constitutional Change in Ireland. from 2020-02-19T16:15:53

Following the financial crisis of 2008 Iceland and Ireland embarked on constructional revisions. In the episode Sævar Finnbogason talks to professor David Farrell about the main differences betw...

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Lawrence Lessig (Part 2) They don't represent us! from 2020-01-28T18:29:26

In the second part of our conversation Larry talks about his new book, The Don't Represent Us, which looks at the reasons for the crisis of democracy in America (and much of the Western World). Wha...

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Lawrence Lessig (Part 1) The Icelandic constitutional process from 2020-01-28T18:11:39

Lawrence Lessig is an academic, attorney, and political activist. He is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and well-known for his activism for net-neutrality and against Money In Politics We me...

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Robert Bjarnason CEO Citizens Foundation from 2019-11-28T17:00

Are online good deliberations and crowdsourcing on political issues possible? Seeing how things often work on Social Media it seems we need platforms designed specifically with that in mind. In ...

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