Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/sortition-democracy-elections-representation-governance
Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix an increasingly oligarchic political system, by empowering ordinary people rather than unaccountable politicians
Sortition - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
• Deliberative groups
| • Sortition
| • Citizens' assemblies
| • Unconferences
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