“…They note the challenges for the circulation of discourses involving civil society, market, and transnational actors in the global sphere (Stevenson and Dryzek, 2014). And, more recently, they mobilized the systemic perspective to comprehend populism (Curato, 2020) and the crises of democracy (Mendonça, 2023). Some researchers suggest the potential of mini-publics and other democratic innovations to scale up deliberative systems (Almeida and Cunha, 2016;Niemeyer, 2014;Niemeyer and Jennstål, 2018), or in search of an open democracy (Landemore, 2020).…”