Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Maurice Pope
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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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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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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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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.
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Random thoughts about elite university applications, including a related excerpt from Maurice Pope’s The Keys to Democracy.
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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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A blog on why I’m so pleased and proud to join the Advisory Board of DemocracyNext.
Hugh Pope 