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Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy
A version of the following essay originally appeared in Jacobin on December 14, 2025.
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Less than a year into the Trump administration’s blitz on America, many are wondering how we...
What Should be Cut from the Draft of "The Trouble With Elections"
Greetings to all! It has been seven months since I finished posting the draft of my book on the trouble with elections and the sortition alternative on Substack. The major publisher, Taylor & Francis, is going to publish it. To reach a wide...
Conclusion
This book has primarily focused on the law-making side of government. But we must also consider the effects of maintaining elections for the executive branch of government. A severe weakening of sortition's benefits within the legislative b...
Nearing the end of this book...
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I am doing final edits to the final section of the final chapter of this book, and will post it within a few days. However, I also need to add a section to chapter 13 “Objections to Sortition” that goes in...
A Better Transition to Sortition
Paris Commune, “Women of Paris,” Harper’s Weekly, May 27, 1871
To avoid the problems of a hybrid bicameral system, I propose a system that allows elections to coexist with sortition, whether permanently, or during a transition to an all-so...
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Redesigning democracy to bring out the best in humanity.
Former politician and election reform policy analyst, since turned democratic lottery advocate.
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