Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: The Keys to 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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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.
Hugh Pope 