Bio

Lyn Carson is currently an associate professor in applied politics with Government and International Relations, (currently seconded to the United States Studies Centre) at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Lyn Carson's contributions:

A New Progressive Consensus?

We asked delegates to the 2020 Summit for an appraisal of the proceedings and the ideas which emerged throughout the weekend. CPD Director Miriam Lyons, Stephen Leeder, Lyn Carson, Jon Altman and Bill Bowtell report back.

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• Our Common Wealth

Beyond the 2020 Summit

Max Hardy, Ron Lubensky and Lyn Carson look at how we could give a wider group of citizens an opportunity to engage with the ideas that come out of the Australia 2020 Summit.

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Power to the people: Citizens Assemblies

Lyn Carson proposes that Australia employ Citizens' Assemblies on issues like the republic. She writes, 'It was a fabulous experiment in deliberative democracy - it has all the essential ingredients: a representative sample of citizens, brought together and given access to considerable information and an opportunity to puzzle about this complex information in small groups, and it was extremely influential - the recommendations went directly to the people in a referendum.' 

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Building sustainable democracies

Most citizens remain outside the political system. Lyn Carson looks at our unrepresentative democratic system.

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