Democracy Is Being Tested. Citizen Assemblies Can Help

Ketakandriana Rafitoson — democracy advocate from Madagascar — argues at TED that citizen assemblies, by bringing ordinary people into direct participation, can revive democratic legitimacy at precisely the moment autocratisation is accelerating globally.

Why this matters → At a time when formal democracy is retreating in more countries than it is advancing, assemblies of randomly selected citizens may be the most resilient democratic institution we can build.