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Author Archives: Common Lot Sortitionist
Common Lot videos
“The Common Lot” Part One (40:15) “The Common Lot” Part Two (40:20) 4-minute short
Bugling for Sortitional Selection
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Videos from Common Lot Productions
“Making Democracy Real — The argument for sortition (3 minutes)
NY Times begins to notice
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.
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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions
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
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“Politics Without Politicians”
Yale professor Helene Landemore outlines her thoughts on ‘Open Democracy’.
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Why Randomly Selected Politicians Would Improve 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
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Random Takes Baltimore – ebook free
“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
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Random Takes Off – e-book free
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
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Random Takes Baltimore (screenplay)
RANDOM TAKES BALTIMORE imagines a political option for the not-too-distant future. Hoping to be a forerunner in assuring that its city council be as statistically representative of the population as possible, the city of Baltimore chooses its city council by … Continue reading
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