Sortition
How to make our democracy better? Try sortition, once practised in Ancient Greece – Prof Matheson Russell
18 May 2022
Assoc. Prof. Matheson Russell explores different models for democracy in action during an era of unprecedented polarisation. His focus? Sortition. A highlight of Raising the Bar Home Edition. Video, Audio
You have been randomly selected to lead the country...
16 Dec 2018
Imagine if instead of voting people into power, politicians were randomly selected from the population. The system of sortition goes back to the ancient Greeks, and Australian writer and academic Tim… Audio