A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change. "Without drastic adjustment, this system ca

The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can be

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

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

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class The gap between the public a