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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for an unrepresentative group of Americans, the House of Representatives isn’t a bad place to start. Its members are disproportionately old and white. More than 80 percent of them ...

‘Britain’s political system is plainly in trouble. Even the majority who regard our country as democratic think Parliament fails to do its job properly. Most of us think the wrong people have too much ...

Campbell Wallace, suggesting “sortition” as a democratic solution, says that “the Greeks of Aristotle's day knew that elections could lead to oligarchy, not democracy” (Letters, 20 May). Centuries ...

Citizens’ assemblies have their roots in sortition – selecting citizens at random to fill public posts – which was once central to democracy In the central marketplace of ancient Athens, around 350BC, ...

A Rockland County man has been accused of plotting to blow himself up on the National Mall on Election Day, all in the name of sortition. Paul Rosenfeld, a 56-year-old Tappan resident, was arrested on ...