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 ...

Can the rise of a different kind of democracy help us to ease the collective feeling of Democratic Fatigue Syndrome?

In today's politically polarized world, finding common ground on complex social and political issues is becoming increasingly challenging. As societies grow more diverse, disagreements on crucial ...

In less than a week, the United States will hold its presidential election, possibly one of the most consequential in its history.

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 Big Read on what sortition democracy means and how it works SNP, Tories, Labour … no politician or party has a clue about our lives The Big Read on ‘pathocracy’ - why politics attracts ...

Deliberation responds to this changing environment. It brings together citizens and/or diverse stakeholders to discuss, debate, and resolve public policy issues collaboratively. A popular approach is ...

The title of Delannoi’s latest book, Sortition, sounds like a Michel Houellebecq novel but is an examination of how one of the earliest democratic procedures, the random drawing of lots in the ...

The great cities of Europe are becoming museums. Venice has already completed the transition. Its resident population is now less than a third of what it was in the 1950s. The Venetians whom one meets ...

There have been two really troubling stories over the past week involving the Government’s welfare gimmicks. First up, health secretary Wes Streeting this week announced a new collaboration with Lilly ...