Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, is pushing a reform that proposes random selection for members of judicial governing councils. This method, once used by the Ancient Romans and in Renaissance ...

By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME, March 11 (Reuters) - Italy has tried random selection before. Ancient Romans used to cast lots to decide who governed in distant provinces while Renaissance ...

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 ...

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Have you ever thought that 535 random people off the street would do a decidedly better job than the duly elected members of the U.S. Congress? If so, you’ve been scooped by a ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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, ...