Tend It Like A Garden: A Podcast on the Irish Citizens' Assembly Mackenzie Nelson, Sarah Bowman, Ian Graham, Chris Mann

In our last episode, we explore some of the critiques and shortcomings of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly and look into the feasibility of replicating the model in other country contexts.

In episode 2, our team travels to Dublin to talk with experts, politicians, civil society and a few random people in pubs about Ireland’s experiment with deliberative democracy. We’ll give you the scoop on how it came about, how it works in practice and what people think about it.  

In this episode, we chat with governance and rule of law experts to learn more about the challenges to democratic governance on both sides of the Atlantic. We explore whether or not a citizens’ assembly might help rebuild trust democratic processes.