A chief route to counter these feelings and strengthen democracy is to better include citizens throughout the deliberation and decision-making processes behind policy decisions

Strengthening democracy shouldn’t be a finger-wagging, eat-your-vegetables thing. It should be something joyful that invites you to co-create.

Eric Liu

Co-founder and CEO

Citizen University

Getting citizens to play an active role in the institutions that govern them has never been easy, but we have decades of research into best practices for encouraging participatory governance.