In a previous post, I proposed a way to structure political parties to compete against each other to propose policy, while relying on the jurga
Tag: sortition
5, oh 5, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the political elite In a previous post, I looked at structuring the political elite. Since much
The political class is useful…for something
Sortition can be seen as a backlash against a permanent political class. And yet it is hard to imagine achieving good governance without a cohesive
Does a group have agency?
In a previous post, I proposed basing a new form of democracy on randomly selected groups of citizens called jurgas. This idea is closely related
Where does sovereignty come from?
All governments assert their legitimacy on the basis of a source; some wellspring, metaphysical or physical, that guarantees that the government’s actions represent something beyond
