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3 posts published by Yoram Gat and peterstone during June 2025| Equality by lot
3 posts published by Yoram Gat and peterstone during June 2025| Equality by lot
7 posts published by Yoram Gat, Owen Shaffer, and towardsautonomyblog during May 2025| Equality by lot
6 posts published by johnhuang865, Yoram Gat, theodorestathis, and richwbrown during September 2024| Equality by lot
Posts about Books written by Yoram Gat, towardsautonomyblog, keithsutherland, Ted Wachtel, and peterstone| Equality by lot
10 posts published by Yoram Gat, Roger Knights, peterstone, and theodorestathis during April 2024| Equality by lot
The democratic potential of sortition| Equality by lot
When I was young, judges did not need to be trained as lawyers, but that was phased out because it was decided that the technical burdens of knowing the law were so great that every judge had to st…| Equality by lot
An open letter by Eric Jourdain and the CaP Démocratie collective to the president of the parliament of Wallonia published in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir (machine translation): Mr. President, The…| Equality by lot
Recently, I posted about a citizens’ assembly to be held in Bristol to develop a “cultural delivery plan.” Now there’s an interview on the subject from the Bristol Cable, &#…| Equality by lot
James Fishkin, creator of deliberative polling, was recently interviewed by Roger Berkowitz on the podcast of the Hannah Arendt Center (which Berkowitz directs). The conversation is far-ranging, an…| Equality by lot
In a recent article in The Catholic Herald Niall Gooch discusses some objections to sortition from the book Against sortition?. As he describes sortition, “[t]he idea is that involving “norma…| Equality by lot
“The Citizen Assembly for Norway’s Future” (Framtidspanelet) was a 56 member body of Norwegian citizens selected through what has become the standard “citizen assembly”…| Equality by lot
Here’s a news item from Arts Professional, which describes itself as the “the UK’s leading independent arts publication for industry professionals.” The article describes how R…| Equality by lot
Posts about politics written by towardsautonomyblog, Nicholas Gruen, Yoram Gat, paulnollen, Brett Hennig, Common Lot Sortitionist, Ahmed R. Teleb, and Conall Boyle| Equality by lot
Posts about elections written by Nicholas Gruen and Yoram Gat| Equality by lot
Posts about democracy written by towardsautonomyblog, Nicholas Gruen, Yoram Gat, Roger Knights, Ahmed R. Teleb, and Nick Coccoma| Equality by lot
Posts about citizens’ assemblies written by Nicholas Gruen, Roger Knights, Ahmed R. Teleb, Nick Coccoma, peterstone, Wayne Liebman, and Owen Shaffer| Equality by lot
Posts about Uncategorized written by Nicholas Gruen, Owen Shaffer, Jonathan Crock, johnhuang865, and Conall Boyle| Equality by lot
7 posts published by Ted Wachtel, Yoram Gat, and Nicholas Gruen during March 2025| Equality by lot
In 2024 The Conservative Woman magazine had two articles on the issue of citizen assemblies. A column writer was opposed to the idea and presented the standard right wing objections (basically, the…| Equality by lot
I am looking for folks who support the sortition + deliberation movement in general but want to put a stronger focus on making changes at the national and international level. I don’t want to…| Equality by lot
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights lawyer and a prominent independent journalist, most famous for breaking the Snowden revelations about U.S. government surveillance. In a …| Equality by lot
Yavor Tarinski The man who wears the shoe knows best that it pinches and where it pinches. ~John Dewey [1] One of the main pillars of contemporary oligarchies worldwide is the institution of electi…| Equality by lot
Posts about meeting written by richwbrown and Ted Wachtel| Equality by lot
Posts about Academia written by peterstone, Yoram Gat, keithsutherland, and Ted Wachtel| Equality by lot
A new paper in The Political Quarterly: Sortition, Parties and Political Careerism Keith Dowding, William Bosworth and Adriano Giuliani Abstract: One reason for growing distrust of politicians, par…| Equality by lot
“What is the best government?” Can we answer this empirically? What kind of research could be conducted to answer these questions? I ask the readers of this blog to generate some ideas.…| Equality by lot
Sortition in Professional Organisations: What can we learn from their practice? In previous presentations, participants have learned the value of integrating sortition into businesses and organisat…| Equality by lot
A post by Summer Anwer, an undergraduate student at American University. The intention of Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Organization Supreme Court ruling was to give the authority to regulate abo…| Equality by lot
Free Webinar: Lottocracy Versus House of Citizens: Contradictory or Compatible? The Building a New Reality Foundation is featuring Brett Hennig and Alex Guerrero on April 1 at noon EDT (UTC-4) to p…| Equality by lot
A story from PA media: Demonstrators disrupt House of Lords to demand abolition of unelected chamber Nick Lester and Abbie Llewelyn, PA Political Staff, 20 March 2025 Protesters have disrupted proc…| Equality by lot
A new book with the title “Should a Citizens’ Assembly Complement the European Parliament?” has been published by the European University Institute. The book is made of a 30-page …| Equality by lot
Over the last few months Romania has been undergoing an electoralist crisis. The crisis was precipitated by the unexpected ascendance of the “far-right populist” candidate Calin Georges…| Equality by lot
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago), Oliver Hart (Harvard University), and Helene E. Landemore (Yale University) write on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. It is interesting …| Equality by lot
The British think tank Radix asked me to give an after-dinner speech to a conference of NGOs involved in promoting democracy which I delivered by teleconference. Almost all democracies mi…| Equality by lot
In an impressive demonstration of the power of the electoralist dogma to twist one’s perception, Pierre Silverberg, writing in the Belgian La Libre, shares his belief that the ascent of the s…| Equality by lot
In the pretty likely event of a hung parliament after the next Australian election, the cross-bench becomes kingmaker. I’m hoping — and expecting — the crossbench to seek greater use of citizen ass…| Equality by lot
Posts about Athens written by Yoram Gat, peterstone, and theodorestathis| Equality by lot
In an excruciating piece in the NYT (unpaywalled version), business guru Adam Grant endorses sortition, but in a risible form in which one randomly selects officials, rather than has a body of rand…| Equality by lot
Posts about History written by Yoram Gat, Roger Knights, and Nick Coccoma| Equality by lot
Common Ground Using Sortition and Georgism to reclaim the Earth for Everyone, One Plot at a Time Can we claim the Earth for everyone, one plot at a time, by aligning people’s self-interest wi…| Equality by lot
Nicholas Coccoma writes about sortition in the Boston Review. While some of the narrative is standard, Coccoma makes some crucial points that are often avoided by the prominent members of the sorti…| Equality by lot
COMMON GROUND Using Sortition and Georgism to reclaim the Earth for Everyone, One Plot at a Time All life and civilization depend on nature. A fundamental function of government is to secure natura…| Equality by lot
A little more than a year ago, Adam Grant offered sortition to the readers of The New York Times. Now Daniel Pink offers it to the readers of the The Washington Post. Interestingly, and encouraging…| Equality by lot
Posts about Press written by Yoram Gat, peterstone, johnhuang865, and keithsutherland| Equality by lot
Posts about Applications written by peterstone, Yoram Gat, and Nicholas Gruen| Equality by lot
Gillian Dymond writes in The Conservative Woman: AN article in the online publication Civil Service World last February announced that former civil servant Sue Gray is working with Labour on plans …| Equality by lot
Richard Dawkins writes in The Spectator: The Electoral College is nonsense In an ideal world, I wouldn’t have chosen an election year for my American book tour. It’s not that I dislike elections ge…| Equality by lot
Alex Guerrero, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a longtime sortition advocate, has written to announce that his book Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections (Oxford Press) is now o…| Equality by lot
Following a piece previously published in The Conservative Woman which was “less than enthusiastic” regarding citizens’ assemblies, a reader of the magazine wrote with her first hand ex…| Equality by lot
By Nick Coccoma, Max Goodman, and Dr. Paul Zeitz off #unifyUSA The Imperial Presidency As we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, it’s time for some straight t…| Equality by lot
By Nick Coccoma, Max Goodman, and Dr. Paul Zeitz of #unifyUSA The Evil Umpire The whole idea of a constitution has one fundamental weakness: Who decides what it means? In the United States, t…| Equality by lot
By Nick Coccoma, Max Goodman, and Dr. Paul Zeitz of #unifyUSA Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash The Problem with Elections As of July 2024, only 16% of Americans approv…| Equality by lot
Moral, Legal, and Practical Imperatives to Restore the American Republic By Nick Coccoma, Max Goodman, and Dr. Paul Zeitz of #unifyUSA. American democracy is falling apart, a slow-motion car wreck …| Equality by lot
The Council of Europe, “the continent’s leading human rights organisation”, announces: A historic milestone for deliberative democracy: Ukraine’s first-ever Citizens’ Assemb…| Equality by lot
David Cottam is a British historian and former principal of Sha Tin College, an international secondary school in Hong Kong, and a columnist in the China Daily Hong Kong Edition. In a recent column…| Equality by lot
Posts about Participation written by Roger Knights and Yoram Gat| Equality by lot
The first post regarding the recently released report by the UK think tank Demos proposing the use of allotted bodies as part of the British political system is here. In this part of the post, I hi…| Equality by lot
Posts about Proposals written by Roger Knights, Yoram Gat, and Nick Coccoma| Equality by lot
Posts about House of Lords written by Yoram Gat, peterstone, Nicholas Gruen, Roger Knights, and tbouricius| Equality by lot
The UK institute Demos describes itself as follows: Founded in 1993 in response to a shortage of new ideas in British politics, we’ve spent three decades cementing our place as a trusted expert on …| Equality by lot
Posts about Sortition written by Owen Shaffer, Yoram Gat, Nick Coccoma, and richwbrown| Equality by lot
Posts about Elections written by Nick Coccoma, Yoram Gat, Nicholas Gruen, and Roger Knights| Equality by lot
Back in 2017, after a minor campaign of harassment, Guardian columnist George Monbiot weighed in on sortition. At the time his verdict was that the idea was nothing short of “a formula for disaster…| Equality by lot
