The essential role of parties in democracies makes it important to keep them democratic.
This article argues for sortition-based citizens' assemblies (CAs) organized in and by civil …

La théorie démocratique contemporaine entretient une relation ambivalente avec les
élections. Alors que les points de vue agrégatifs et minimalistes les considèrent comme une …

The presence of women in elected assemblies has been argued to transform the political
agenda so that it better addresses the needs and interests of women. In this article, I reflect …

Democratic electoral systems characteristically take a Count-and-Report Approach to
enfranchised citizens' failure to turn out in political elections: The number of non-votes is …

In recent years, political scientists have devoted increasing attention to sortition–the random
selection of ordinary citizens for political decision-making. This has been accompanied by a …

In the context of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article
responds skeptically to the numerous contributions calling for the supplanting of elections by …

Sortition is widely used in our political systems to constitute citizen panels. It is now possible
to study the limits of this method of selecting our political representatives. This book presents …

O papel essencial dos partidos nas democracias faz deles importantes para mantê-los
democráticos. Este artigo defende a classificação baseada nas assembleias dos cidadãos …

I started working on this project in 2017, after stumbling across an article about the Irish
Citizens' Assembly on the legalisation of abortion. I was intrigued by the idea that involving …

This thesis discusses whether lottocracy can be considered a democratic form of
government or whether it would replace democracy. In lottocracy, politicians are no longer …