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 ...

For a proportional system, however, sortition MP could represent the non-voting part of the electorate at large, as proposed by Michael Donovan. Using the 2024 election as an example, if the 650 ...

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 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 ...

Deliberation responds to this changing environment. It brings together citizens and/or diverse stakeholders to discuss, debate, and resolve public policy issues collaboratively. A popular approach is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I find it quite worrying that Mr Streeting is making this link. Because I fear that this is yet another example of this Government’s thinking that health problems, and associated unemployment, are a ...