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. Democracy ...

Throughout history, countless men and women have been willing to sacrifice their lives for their belief in the superiority of their country and its way of governance. But virtually none of them were ...

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 ...

Widespread political ignorance is a serious problem for modern democracy. In recent years, many scholars have argued that we can overcome it by relying on "sortition": delegating various political ...

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 ...

Campbell Wallace, suggesting “sortition” as a democratic solution, says that “the Greeks of Aristotle's day knew that elections could lead to oligarchy, not democracy” (Letters, 20 May). Centuries ...