This article explores the prospects of an increasingly debated democratic reform: assigning
political offices by lot. While this idea is advocated by political theorists and politicians in …

Random selection for political office—or “sortition”—is increasingly seen as a promising tool
for democratic renewal. Critics worry, however, that replacing elected and appointed officials …

When are inequalities in political power undemocratic, and why? While some writers
condemn any inequalities in political power as a deviation from the ideal of democracy, this …

How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy
have the right to participate in politics, time-consuming forms of participation often …

Electoral democracies are struggling. Sintomer, in this instructive book, argues for
democratic innovations. One such innovation is using random selection to create citizen …

Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news,
distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Citizen Knowledge, Lisa Herzog …

Policy-makers are increasingly experimenting with various ways to involve citizens in policy-
making. Deliberative forums composed of lay citizens (minipublics) count among the most …

In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the
assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a …

Four years after the Panama Papers scandal, tax avoidance remains an urgent moral-
political problem. Moving beyond both the academic and policy mainstream, I advocate the …

This paper looks at Alexander Guerrero's epistemic case for 'lottocracy', or government by
randomly selected citizen assemblies. It argues that Guerrero fails to show that citizen …