A CITIZEN LEGISLATURE (with Michael Phillips) outlines a bold solution to the election-finance corruption of American electoral politics - by reviving, with modern sampling techniques, the ancient Athenian practice of selecting representatives by random lot. As timid campaign-finance reforms are repeatedly tried and predictably fail, this radical solution gains in appeal.
Back in print in a joint edition with A PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT, by Keith Sutherland: www/Imprint-Academic.com/sortition. For free download of A CITIZEN LEGISLATURE, go to: http://www.well.com/user/mp/citleg.html