I just have just read « Open democracy : Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century », from the Yale professor Hélène Landemore.

It is an amazing book, that introduces a new paradigm of « Open Democracy » to replace the current « Electoral Democracy ».

The five principles of Open Democracy are :

1. Participation rights : petition, citizen’s initiative, right of referal.
2. Deliberation : inclusive and informed discussion to create the best political solutions.
3. Majoritarian Principle : rather than the Electoral College or Senate filibuster madness, gives any voice the same importance. We can use new, smarter and fairer system of vote such as the Majority Judgment.
4. Democratic Representation : thanks to Sortition and Citizen’s Assemblies, at the heart of the Open Democracy.
5. Transparence.

An excellent book, gripping and intelligent, to advance the case of a new, fairer, type of Democracy.

However, maybe someone that does not know Sortition should rather begins with « Against Elections : the Case for Democracy » (David Van Reybrouck) and « The End of politicians » (Brett Hennig)

Princeton Press : https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181998/open-democracy

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