Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Democracy
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Reflections of a deliberative democrat on debating the Ottoman Empire in the Oxford Union, 20 November 2025
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People feel hopeless at the state of our elected governments. But here’s news from the frontline of deliberative democracy activists who are finding another way to run our countries better.
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An account of what happened after the 56 randomly selected members Norway’s Framtidspanelet, or Future Assembly, were asked to come up with ideas for spending the country’s oil fortune.
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What will Europe standing on its own two feet really mean?
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A second anniversary celebration of the modest but unexpected success of my late father’s posthumous book, The Keys to Democracy.
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If better representation brings better government, then random selection has more potential to do the job.
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Belgian industrialist Luc Bertrand outlines the challenges undermining government in Belgium and Europe. In particular, he outlines the failure of electoral democracy. But Belgium is also a pioneer in new ways of making public decisions more efficiently.
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The cutting-edge podcasters shows beyond doubt that our system of election-based, representative government is broken. But – while flirting with good alternatives like deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies – they fall short in telling us what they think might fix the mess.
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Lessons learned from a week of deliberative democracy and citizens’ assembly events in British Columbia, Canada.
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Citizens’ Assemblies seem to be more and more in the news, making me even gladder that we managed to get my late Dad’s long-lost book on sortition-based democracy published a year ago.
Hugh Pope 