We propose a new online sortition protocol which is decentralized. We argue that our protocol has safety, fairness, randomness, non-reputation and openness properties. Sortition is a process that makes random decision and it is used in competitions and lotteries to determine who is the winner. In the real world, sortition is simply done using a lottery machine and all the participa...

Random selection for political office—or “sortition”—is increasingly seen as a promising tool democratic renewal. Critics worry, however, that replacing elected and appointed officials with randomly selected citizens would only exacerbate elite manipulation of processes. This article argues sortition can contribute to renewal, but its genuine promise is obscured by the excessive ambition mispla...

The sortition, historically used in classical Greece, seems to be facing a process of resurgence, an attempt alleviate citizen disaffection and improve the functioning representative systems. main objective this article is, precisely, reflect on use sortition potential deliberative mini-publics, analyze whether or not they have capacity increase degree citizens’ their representatives institutio...

As representative democracy is increasingly criticized, a new institution becoming popular among academics and practitioners: deliberative citizens’ assemblies. To evaluate whether these assemblies can deliver their promise of re-engaging the dissatisfied politics, we explore who supports them why. We build on unique survey conducted with samples 15 Western European countries find, first, that ...

There are two important dimensions to the membership of mini-publics that distinct from conventional representative institutions: selection mechanism (sortition) and profile body's eligible (‘ordinary’ citizens). This article examines effects these design features on perceived legitimacy. A survey experiment in deeply divided context Northern Ireland finds no evidence variation mini-public has ...