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Local referendums are indispensable to sound out the will of citizens on concrete issues that directly affect their daily lives.
Cities and municipalities should accompany the implementation of municipal referendums with randomly selected citizens’ assembly.
Among democratic innovations, deliberative mini-publics, that is panels of randomly selected citizens tasked to make recommendations about public policies, have been increasingly used. In this regard, Ireland stands out as a truly unique case because, on the one hand, it held four consecutive randomly selected citizens’ assemblies, and on the other hand, some of those processes produced major political outcomes through three successful referendums; no other country shows such as record.
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