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Paolo Spada

Paolo Spada joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation.

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https://youtu.be/L2QmR3ePexk Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, there could be errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovators Podcast and our guest of today is Paolo Spada. And thank you Paolo for your time and as first question I would like to ask you if you can share something about yourself and your research path, also like what you worked on. Paolo Spada (00:24) Thank you for having me Alessandro. So my research is quite unusual in the field because I started as an economist studying monetary crisis. I finished my undergrad in 2000. My dissertation was with Professor Giavazzi that is quite well known in Italy. But then I read a really famous article from Le Monde There was talking about participatory budgeting and the social forum in Porto Allegre and I got really interested into it and then I was talking with some friend and he came out

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Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation