Widespread political ignorance is a serious problem for modern democracy. In recent years, many scholars have argued that we can overcome it by relying on "sortition": delegating various political ...

Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary ...

An article examining the practice of sortition today and its role as organic and necessary, but highly neglected, part of the direct democracy as anti-authoritarian form of self-management. Democracy ...

Throughout history, countless men and women have been willing to sacrifice their lives for their belief in the superiority of their country and its way of governance. But virtually none of them were ...

The Red & Black publishes opinions from a number of contributors and staff columnists. Their opinions do not reflect the opinions of the editorial staff. The editorial staff is in no way involved with ...

Recent controversies over election rules and the coronavirus threat have bolstered advocates of decision-making by randomly selected groups of voters. But this approach still has serious flaws. Some ...

Paul Rosenfeld, a 56-year-old Tappan, New York, man, plotted to bomb the National Mall in Washington D.C. on election day to draw attention to sortition, a political belief that government officials ...

In 1983 the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution enshrined an abortion ban that had prevailed in the nation for more than a century. Public opinion on the issue shifted in the new millennium, ...