Democratic Innovations

• Book: Democratic Innovations. by Graham Smith. Cambridge University Press,

URL = http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2327138/?site_locale=en_GB

Summary

Tiago Peixoto:

"At a time when citizen participation is considered – at least in theory – an important part of the open government movement, those working in this sphere should pay particular attention to different methods of participant selection (e.g. self-selection, randomized) and what the prospects and limits for each of these different methods are.

An awesome read on this subject is the book Democratic Innovations by Graham Smith. Among other things, Graham looks at the impact that different institutional designs (and methods of selection) have on the inclusiveness of participatory experiences." (http://democracyspot.net/2012/10/08/democracy-by-sortition-government-by-lot/)