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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi Kicks Off Global Innovations in Democracy Exchange
United States House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi helped kick off the event at the opening reception, hosted by Walter Goetz, head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in…
Potential Spillover Effects from IDEA DTHs with Nigerian National Assembly Offer Promising Results
In January 2024, IDEA alongside NOIPolls (a Nigeria-based non-governmental research organization) held two deliberative town halls between the citizens of Bende and Baruten/Kaiama and…
IDEA Deliberative Town Halls with Nigerian National Assembly Slated for January 2024
Starting in January of 2024, IDEA will partner with the Nigerian National Assembly (NA) on a ground-breaking research study to further support Nigeria’s democratic consolidation.…
IDEA and Fundación Piensa Hold First Ever Deliberative Town Halls in Chile
In partnership with Fundación Piensa, IDEA held the first ever series of Deliberative Town Halls (DTHs) in Chile with 3400 citizens of every age, class, and region. Matías Díaz, a…
IDEA Celebrates Entering Third Year of Connecting Classrooms to Congress Initiative
IDEA and our partners at Columbia University and the University of California Riverside are incredibly excited with the progress made in the second year of a grant funded by…
Deliberative Programs Featured in Inside Higher Ed
IDEA and our colleague Ryan Kennedy at the University of Houston were featured last week in an Inside
Higher Ed article titled “Not like Cable News.” The article detailed Ryan Kennedy’s…
Dr. Michael Neblo Testifies Before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
On March 25th, 2021, Professor Michael Neblo of the Ohio State University’s Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) testified for the second time to the House of…
What COVID Has Taught Congress About Constituent Communications
Congress remain captive to tech that requires them to stretch limited budgets to do even basic outreach. Deliberative Town Halls, a free resource IDEA offers Members of Congress as part of…
What Makes a *Deliberative* Town Hall different?
IDEA Director Michael Neblo explains how Connecting to Congress Deliberative Town Halls are decidedly different from regular town halls.IDEA Director Michael Neblo was interviewed by Columbus…