Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for an unrepresentative group of Americans, the House of Representatives isn’t a bad place to start. Its members are disproportionately old and white. More than 80 percent of them ...

(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 ...

‘Britain’s political system is plainly in trouble. Even the majority who regard our country as democratic think Parliament fails to do its job properly. Most of us think the wrong people have too much ...

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 ...

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[Anthony Barnett: Back in the early 1990s I wrote a paper for Charter 88 suggesting that if the role of a reformed second chamber was to hold the Commons to account, then it could be selected by lot.

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