Two calls for an additional, lottery-based house of parliament in leading Dutch newspapers NRC and Volkskrant, as the new book by Eva Rovers advocating such a Third Chamber hits the shelves. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL libris.nl/a/eva-rovers...

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Hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht Wim Voermans zal op do.-avond 18 sep in Tilburg een pleidooi houden voor het permanente burgerberaad. Gratis toegangstickets | Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Voermans will advocate permanent Citizens Assembly in city of Tilburg. #SortitionNL

Leading Dutch advocate for Citizens' Assemblies Eva Rovers publishes article in online Dutch newspaper De Correspondent. Included: a map showing all permanent local and regional councils in Europe with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL

More on Edmund Griffiths' proposal for sortition in a yet to be founded new left party in the United Kingdom. #SortitionUK @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social @lijphart.bsky.social @nuttlos.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy www.edmundgriffiths.com/newpargetsor...

Former Labour Party and now independent MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced a new left-wing party; possibly with bottom-up approach using within-party sortition. #SortitionUK ukdemocracynetwork.medium.com/uk-democracy... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Pa...

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dus de meerderheid denkt niet zelfstandig na? Dit is overigens ook mijn indruk, wanneer ik hier zelfstandig over probeer na te denken. Maar wat zegt dit over de legitimiteit van verkiezingsuitslagen? Meten die dan nog wel inhoudelijke voorkeuren? Of is het een spelletje tussen media strategen?

"It is expected around 20 to 25 people will be recruited via a postal lottery of 10,000 addresses, with the aim of selecting a group that is broadly representative of the wider UK population." #SortitionUK

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Apparently, in August a political party for sortition will be founded in Germany: announcement of founding meeting in Munich. | Aankondiging van oprichtingsvergadering van een partij voor burgerloting in Duitsland. #SortitionDE

Hier het hele interview met David Van Reybrouck in Buitenhof. | 'Democracy in Europe today is a procession of completely worn-out cars' #SortitionNL www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGj1...

Today David Van Reybrouck was interviewed on national Dutch public TV. Very critical of the current system. News: city of Amersfoort is considering setting up a permanent Citizens' Council. | Fragment begint op 50:29 (12 minuten) #SortitionNL npo.nl/start/serie/...

In Texas between 1996 and 1998, eight electric utilities polled customers drawn by lot to determine what energy options they preferred to meet future electric requirement. We could call it a lobby of the customers. #SortitionUS deliberation.stanford.edu/news/deliber...

Today a delegation of the Dutch Climate Assembly paid a visit to the Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber, the 'House of Representatives'), and had a chat with MPs about participating in the assembly. The official recommendations will be handed over in September. #SortitionNL #NBK

NOS Nieuws verzuimt te vermelden dat een geloot burgerberaad vorm gaf aan het Franse wetsvoorstel euthanasie | Dutch public news station @nieuws.nos.nl fails to mention the role of the French Citizens' Assembly on assisted dying. #SortitionFR nos.nl/artikel/2568...

Survey on Citizens' Assemblies, in English, Dutch, German, Italian, and Greek: anybody is welcome to take part. Go to: citizenstakeover.eu/citidem/#con... You'll find the link 'You can participate *here*' just above the header "Events". #Sortition

Terry Bouricius is one of most visionary thinkers on democracy. On this podcast episode, he explains how he discovered citizen assemblies and why he now considers himself a "recovering politician." Check it out! #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssemby open.substack.com/pub/nickcocc...

Third French national Citizens' Assembly will be launched in June and will focus on school hours, and school holidays. #SortitionFR www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Main Dutch centrist-liberal newspaper NRC publishes high-quality discussion between David Van Reybrouck and opposing Belgian journalist Joël De Ceulaer on Against Elections, sortition, and Citizens' Assemblies. #SortitionNL @nrcnl.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

In the province of North-Holland big-business oriented VVD, right-of-center christian-democrat CDA and liberal-democrat pan-European Volt abolish referenda and opt for Citizens' Assemblies | VVD, CDA en Volt N-Holland scharen zich achter burgerberaden #SortitionNL noordholland.vvd.nl/nieuws/57868...

Dutch public-TV evening news reports on the School Assembly on a Dutch vocational school — on the use of mobile phones — but fails to mention that the students and teachers were selected by lot. [at 18m58s] #SortitionNL @nieuws.nos.nl npo.nl/start/serie/...

New post in the Sortition Agora! The Sortition Agora is the place where you can find discussions, think pieces and lively debates on everything to do with the Journal of Sortition! Make your way over to submit a post or add your comments to the discussion 🗣️ sortition-agora.com

Swiss Republic Day (1798) on April, 12th — with on-stage discussion on Democracy and Sortition. #SortitionCH www.tagderrepublik.ch

While the Dutch National Climate Assembly is still underway, another government-initiated national Citizens' Assembly has been announced, by the Justice Department: on the role of social media in public unrest. | Nieuwe burgerdialoog op komst. #SortitionNL www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/upcoming-cit...

Mrs. Eva Rovers, the Netherlands' driving force behind Citizens' Assemblies and sortition, interviewed today in one of the main Dutch newspapers: the left-of-center Volkskrant | interview met Eva Rovers in de @volkskrant.nl. #SortitionNL www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/v...

Belgian author/historian David Van Reybrouck interviewed by the Dutch financial newspaper @fd.nl. Against Elections is mentioned, as are sortition and the East-Belgian Citizens' Council. | Interview met Denker der Nederlanden David Van Reybrouck in het FD. #SortitionNL fd.nl/samenleving/...

Author of 'Against Elections' (and other highly regarded books, for example on Belgian, Dutch, and worldwide colonial history) David Van Reybrouck has been chosen to become the new 'National Dutch Thinker' by Dutch philosophers' foundation. #SortitionNL www.bruzz.be/actua/samenl...

Left-of-center Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant publishes column defending the National Climate Assembly, and advocating for Citizens' Assemblies in general. | Pleidooi voor burgerberaden in de Volkskrant. #SortitionNL

Farmers'/rural party BBB ('Farmer-Citizen Movement'), one of the parties supporting the unstable right-wing four-party coalition, calls for putting an end to the national Dutch Citizens' Assembly on Climate. #SortitionNL

#SortitionUS | Loting in de Verenigde Staten www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/loting-in-de...

Excellent article advocating for sortition in the Amsterdam-based newspaper Het Parool — with a mention of David Van Reybrouck's book Against Elections. #SortitionNL @parool.nl www.parool.nl/columns-opin...

Today in 1953 part of the Netherlands was flooded. 1836 people died. The disaster is usually attributed to the exceptional storm, but elected politicians had ignored hydraulic engineer Johan van Veen's repeated warnings that the dikes were too weak. #SortitionNL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_v...

Another book on sortition apparently has hit the shelves: 64 pages, paperback $9.99, December, 2024 | En wéér is er een nieuw boek over loting verschenen. More books on sortition, in English, Dutch, German, and French: tegenverkiezingen.nl/boeken

Radical-right PVV MP and party leader Wilders lashes out at the Dutch National Climate Assembly. PVV is part of the unstable four-party coalition government — without Senate majority — that supports the Climate Assembly. #SortitionNL #NBK

In yesterday evening's news show, EenVandaag compared Citizens' Assemblies with the ekklesia in ancient Athens. That's not right. The boulè, the Council of 500, was the sortition-based body. Ekklesia was the referendum square. Boulè had veto power. #SortitionNL eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/eenvand...

Dutch public-TV early-evening news show EenVandaag ('One Today') interviews one of the 175 members of the National Climate Citizens' Assembly that kicks off today. #SortitionNL #NBK eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/elisa-z...

Last Wednesday on NPO Dutch national public TV the current affairs evening show @nieuwsuur.nl ('News Hour') had an item on the upcoming National Climate Assembly. The general response on X, and in right-wing media, is very distrustful. #SortitionNL www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/nieuwsuur-be...

„One of the best side effects of democracy is that people get on well with everyone, no matter how different or similar they are to you. 
This shows us how undemocratic we have remained. We live together in aristocracies that are always exclusive, discriminatory and organised antagonistically. 1/2

Isn't a Citizens' Assembly already inclusive in and of itself? What exactly is this EU-CIEMBLY (*what* does it mean?) project about? The language on the site is quite abstract: not very inclusive. And is an online discussion forum an appropriate tool? #SortitionEU www.eu-ciembly.eu/en/topics-an...

Concept version of German Social-Democrat Party election manifest: establishing Citizens' Assemblies as a permanent element of democracy | SPD geeft in ontwerpverkiezingsprogramma aan burgerberaden een vast onderdeel v/d democratie te willen maken. #SortitionDE

Democracies die through elections