Ned Crosby

Hello, fair readers! If you’ve come across this website intentionally, you’ll know me, Ned Crosby, as the American inventor of the Citizens Jury. There are three sections on this website:

SECTION 1: Intellectual background of the Citizens Jury process and the Citizens Initiative Review.

SECTION 2: Improving democracy through the Citizens Jury process and other deliberative methods.

SECTION 3: New democratic systems.

I am the American creator of the Citizens Jury process, which I invented in April of 1971, three months after Peter Dienel, a professor of sociology in Wuppertal, Germany, invented virtually the same process. We didn’t learn of each other until 1985. Here are a few relevant things about me.

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