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Can Random Citizens Fix Broken Democracies?
When your landlord can evict you for no reason, and your parliament is full of homeowners who bought decades ago, something is broken. This episode explores a radical fix: sortition — selecting political officials by lottery rather than election. We trace the idea from ancient Athens (where voting was considered aristocratic) to modern experiments in Ireland, France, and Belgium. Ireland's citizens' assemblies broke political logjams on marriage equality and abortion. But advisory bodies can be ignored. Belgium's German-speaking community created the world's first permanent sortition chamber…
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