Randomly selecting points inside a triangle
How to uniformly sample points from a triangle. One method that seems plausible but isn't uniform, and a clever method that is uniform.
There is No Meritocracy Without Lottocracy
Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
Why facilitators are necessary to ensure high-quality public deliberation in citizens’ assemblies
Democratic Audit has recently published several articles on the potential for citizens’ assemblies to resolve entrenched political problems, in particular for power-sharing in Northern Ireland, bu…
Why Randomly Selected Politicians Would Improve Democracy
“Their counterintuitive conclusion is that randomly selected legislators always improves the performance of parliament and that it is possible to determine the optimal number of independents …
Suzuki: The solution we need is a system where politicians are drawn from a hat
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randomselectionSuzuki: The solution we need is a system where politicians are drawn from a hat
Canadian scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki has given up on the electoral system and proposes to replace it with a sortition-based system. Some excerpts from an interview with the National…
Student Government Lotteries: Student Government Lotteries replace student elections, giving all students an equal chance to participate in student government and develop leadership and civic skills
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civicskillsStudent Government Lotteries
Student Government Lotteries replace student elections, giving all students an equal chance to participate in student government and develop leadership and civic skills.
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