Instead of competing with one another, advocates of different democratic processes should build bridges, and share a common ...

The Citizen's Forum on Housing is looking to recruit 100 people across all six counties to help come up with a series of recommendations on key housing issues to be presented to the Assembly, the UK a ...

In our current system, elections do not foster good policies. Some elite thinkers would blame the electorate rather than the system in which they cast their votes, and thus would try to limit the ...

An article that argues that parliamentary elections are inherently undemocratic, fostering cynicism and alienation among ...

A collection of essays by Michel Löwy on Rosa Luxemburg, drawn from writing over many decades, provokes stimulating debates, ...

In our era of frustration with traditional parties and political intermediaries, I understand the appeal of other democratic forms like sortition, citizens’ assemblies, and participatory budgeting.

We need to re-think what we mean by the people's voice in democracy, write Anne Bardsley and Tatjiana Buklijas The post Can ...

Esterling, Kevin M. 2019. Citizen Reasoning within Counterfactual Democratic Institutions. PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 52, Issue. 4, p. 650. Minozzi ...

where the term “democracy” – literally “people rule” – originates and where people were selected at random through “sortition” to make decisions on judicial and official matters ...

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund to ensure developing nations can ...

One alternative to elections that is worthy of serious thought is what was called sortition in ancient Athens and medieval Lombardy in Italy. It was the method or mode of selecting ‘public ...