intelligent computer named SuperFreq. We'll imagine a dialogue between the computer and
Jackie Bernoulli, a fictional college student and descendant of Jacob, trying to analyze some …

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

If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of
the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a …

We study an important crowdsourcing setting where agents evaluate one another and,
based on these evaluations, a subset of agents are selected. This setting is ubiquitous when …

Abstract Ramon Llull (Majorca c. 1232–1316) is one of the earliest founding fathers of voting
theory and social choice theory. The present article places Llull's contributions and …

Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is
democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Having spent their celebrated careers …

Sortition is an alternative approach to democracy, in which representatives are not elected
but randomly selected from the population. Most electoral democracies fail to accurately …

The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography has stimulated much research in
community ecology. Here, exact results are used to apply neutral model predictions to large …

A population of voters must elect representatives among themselves to decide on a
sequence of possibly unforeseen binary issues. Voters care only about the final decision …

After two centuries during which it had nearly disappeared in Western countries, sortition is
used again as a method of selecting people who could speak for, and in certain cases …