Brett Hennig is co-founder and director of the Sortition Foundation. The one new democratic tool that should become common practice in U.S. cities, states and nationally, is sortition: the use of ...

The theme of the 2024 General Election was meant to be change. Apart from the end of the chaotic Conservative government and ...

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition — a random lottery from a pool of candidates. In the United States, we already use ...

The AI did better than professional mediators at getting people to reach agreement.

The Sortition groups formed a demographically ... certain aspects of real-world deliberation,” Tessler says. “For example, it doesn’t have the mediation-relevant capacities of fact-checking ...

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially ...

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially ...

Citizens’ assemblies bring together a representative sample of a population chosen by lottery (a process called 'sortition ... was one of the first examples of a national citizens’ assembly ...

In today's politically polarized world, finding common ground on complex social and political issues is becoming increasingly challenging. As societies grow more diverse, disagreements on crucial ...

Since parliamentary democracy has come under fire in many western European democracies, two ancient concepts from constitutional theory reentered the stage: sortition and the citizens assembly. David ...

15 As evidence for the least-likeliness of Japan in terms of lottocracy, we can also emphasize how the Japanese are not familiar with the sortition system; the lay judge system (Saibanin Seido), where ...