Widespread political ignorance is a serious problem for modern democracy. In recent years, many scholars have argued that we can overcome it by relying on "sortition": delegating various political ...

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An article examining the practice of sortition today and its role as organic and necessary, but highly neglected, part of the direct democracy as anti-authoritarian form of self-management. Submitted ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Have you ever thought that 535 random people off the street would do a decidedly better job than the duly elected members of the U.S. Congress? If so, you’ve been scooped by a ...

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Recent controversies over election rules and the coronavirus threat have bolstered advocates of decision-making by randomly selected groups of voters. But this approach still has serious flaws. Some ...

Citizens’ assemblies have their roots in sortition – selecting citizens at random to fill public posts – which was once central to democracy In the central marketplace of ancient Athens, around 350BC, ...

This is the third in a series of posts based on the new edition of my book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter. Previous entries in the series outlined why I wrote the ...