Articles & Essays

More-than-human democracy: Remembering that we all live in the same garden, 10 December 2023

Assembly Required, RSA Journal, 29 June 2023

A new democracy defined by joy, agency, dignity, wonder, and being in relationship, 20 February 2023

2022: An Expansive Year, DemocracyNext Newsletter, 13 January 2023

My remarks at the 2022 United Nations Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law, 25 November 2022, Geneva

« Les assemblées tirées au sort ont fait la preuve qu’elles fonctionnent », Le Monde, 15 September 2022, with Hélène Landemore (English thread about it here)

Reclaiming Democracy: The Deliberative Wave, Exponential View, 5 June 2022

A Movement That’s Quietly Reshaping Democracy For The Better, NOEMA, 12 May 2022

The Pandemic Has Pushed Citizen Panels Online, Nature, January 2021

Renewing Democracy in an Age of Complexity and Disillusionment, OECD Participo, February 2020

A New Wave of Deliberative Democracy, Carnegie Europe, November 2019

Macron’s Sham Democracy, Politico, December 2018, co-authored with David Van Reybrouck

En Marche: From a Movement to a Government, Carnegie Europe, April 2018

Union européenne : Les « conventions démocratiques » manquent d’ambition, Le Monde, December 2017

Can Democratic Conventions Save the EU?, Institut Montaigne, November 2017

Why Adding Informed Citizen Views Leads to More Legitimate Policymaking, Centre for Public Impact, August 2017

The People’s Verdict: Adding Informed Citizen Voices to Public Decision-making: Summary of key arguments

Has French Politics Changed for Good?, CapX, May 2017

The Real Explanation for Brexit and Trump, CapX, December 2016

Can Liberal Democracy be Rescued?, Renewal Journal, June 2016

The Front National: Old Rhetoric, New Practices, Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, October 2015, co-authored with Renaud Thillaye

Replace this Archaic Institution with a Citizens’ Senate, Globe & Mail, June 2015

Are We Electoral Fundamentalists? , 3:AM Magazine, January 2015