Landemore wishes to be a radical democrat, but she is not radical enough. Why do people need to be ruled at all? In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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. Submitted ...

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 ...

This is the third in a series of posts based on the new edition of my book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter. Previous entries in the series outlined why I wrote the ...