Tag: Belgium
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The city successfully used random selection to solve a mediaeval crisis – and could do so again Sortition – the random selection of groups of people to study, deliberate and decide on a disputed topic – struggles to be seen as a credible option for making policy. Quite often, people haven’t even heard of the…
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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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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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Reflections on my discovery that two of my grandfather’s cousins died fighting near Ypres in Belgium, where I now live. My grandfather was injured in a separate battle nearby.
Hugh Pope 