Elections vs. Lotteries: Retrenching or Renewing Democracy?

In recent years there has been great excitement about the use of random samples for deliberative decision making. Should this practice of sortition replace our elected representative institutions? Or what role should they play, if any, in the reform of democracy? A roundtable discussion featuring both advocates and critics of sortition.

Chair: Mark Warren (University of British Columbia)

Presenters

Simone Chambers (University of California Irvine)

James Fishkin (Stanford University)

Alexander Guerrero (Rutgers University)

Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)

Giulia Oskian (Yale University)

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)