Sortition, or democracy by lottery, was originally used in Ancient Athens to elect magistrates to governing committees and juries. It is now used to form juries to deliberate in criminal trials in ...

Brett Hennig is co-founder and director of the Sortition Foundation. The one new democratic tool that should become common practice in U.S. cities, states and nationally, is sortition: the use of ...

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition — a random lottery from a pool of candidates. In the United States, we already use ...

Google DeepMind recruited 5,734 participants, some through a crowdsourcing research platform and others through the Sortition Foundation, a nonprofit that organizes citizens’ assemblies.

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially ...

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially ...

Since parliamentary democracy has come under fire in many western European democracies, two ancient concepts from constitutional theory reentered the stage: sortition and the citizens assembly. David ...