Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Sortition
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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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Faced with another five years of polarising electoral politics, could Turkey do with a dose of sortition?
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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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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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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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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.
Hugh Pope 