Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Author: Hugh Pope
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Faced with another five years of polarising electoral politics, could Turkey do with a dose of sortition?
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How are things going in Iraqi Kurdistan? I enjoyed ten days there this winter and – even though I know people often take a very dim view of the region’s prospects – the piece below published in the Byline Times is my attempt to give a fair answer the question. I was lucky to be…
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A blog roll with links and photos to record the public presentations of the book The Keys to Democracy.
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Endorsements and excerpts from reviews for The Keys to Democracy: sortition as a new model for citizen power by the late Maurice Pope.
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How often do any of us study a single topic for 27 working days, spread over four months of reflection? Backed by the full support of a government and briefings by experts, officials, civil society and academics? Helped by regular deliberation with fellow citizens from all parts of our community? And in our conclusions, responsible…
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Meeting Iraqi Kurdistan’s most powerful man, Masoud Barzani.
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A blog on why I’m so pleased and proud to join the Advisory Board of DemocracyNext.
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Background to the forthcoming publication in Spring 2023 of the late classicist Maurice Pope’s last and long-lost book on sortition-based democracy.
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Going to my own holiday home is at last feeling like a real vacation.
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Thoughts on archives of the future while sending my late father Maurice Pope’s papers to be archived at Cambridge University.
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