Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Europe
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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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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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Faced with another five years of polarising electoral politics, could Turkey do with a dose of sortition?
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While researching the history of random selection in democracies, this 1936 book by a French parliamentarian struck me as full of common sense about the problems with elections-based rule.
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My piece for Politico on how the grant of Belgian nationality is healing my sense of being torn apart by Britain’s June 2015 decision to leave the EU.
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How Brussels is having to get used to conflict as Europe and Middle East seem to be overlap more and more.
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