Caroline Paulick Thiel discusses with Gesine Schwan and Claudine Nierth:
- What is the state of democracy? What are the key challenges?
- What options for action and solutions are there?
- What could be innovations for the further development of democracy?
Citizens' councils, municipal development councils and other direct participation formats have
have been repeatedly trialled in recent years as extensions of representative democracy.
democracy. How effective and ground-breaking are these new formats? And how can we ensure that participation enables genuine and fair participation?
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