Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

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 ...

‘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 ...

Keith Sutherland (Exeter, Imprint Academic): Imprint Academic’s new book series on political lotteries and citizen juries is launched this week. The series is our response to the growing sense that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A Rockland County man has been accused of plotting to blow himself up on the National Mall on Election Day, all in the name of sortition. Paul Rosenfeld, a 56-year-old Tappan resident, was arrested on ...

KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she ...