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There is no mention of sortition in this NY Times opinion piece. And it only muses on what a more equitably representative legislature might accomplish.But … it is still another little step into the mainstream.

This newly published document from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development draws on data collected from nearly 300 case studies from 1986 to October 2019. Its 200 pages cover randomly selected Citizens’ Assemblies, Juries, Panels and ‘other representative deliberative … Continue reading →

Yale professor Helene Landemore outlines her thoughts on ‘Open Democracy’.

“Their counterintuitive conclusion is that randomly selected legislators always improves the performance of parliament and that it is possible to determine the optimal number of independents at which a parliament works best.” https://www.technologyreview.com/s/423251/why-randomly-selected-politicians-would-improve-democracy/ From the MIT Technology Review of March 9, … Continue reading →

“FREE as e-book from 12-16 April, Thursday through Monday RANDOM TAKES BALTIMORE Hoping to be a forerunner of the Next Step For Democracy, Baltimore chooses its city council by random selection. The fifteen new council members must struggle to maintain … Continue reading →

From Sunday through Thursday, 8-12 April 2018, available as a FREE e-book . RANDOM TAKES OFF screenplay What if we selected legislative representatives the way we choose juries? In this screenplay two ‘ordinary citizens’ enter the first randomly chosen Citizen … Continue reading →

The first randomly-selected representatives of the Citizen House convenes. But just because it is proportionally representative of all willing and able citizens does not mean that these new representatives are well-suited. The only reason that Cathy Gresham has accepted her … Continue reading →