Books by Hélène Landemore
“Landemore’s Open Democracy is more about the philosophy of it all. Landemore is a professor of political science at Yale, and this is definitely an academic book. But, like other academics working in this field, she spends a great deal of time working with governments, NGOs, facilitating companies on how to make sortition perform well. She also serves on the oversight committees of citizens’ assemblies themselves, so her theoretical work is inspired by broad real-life experience. This included her attending an early citizens’ assembly on constitutional reform in Iceland in the early 2010s, which gets a good chapter.” Read more...
The best books on Citizens’ Assemblies
Hugh Pope, Development & Aid Workers (see also Economists)
Interviews where books by Hélène Landemore were recommended
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Against Elections
by David Van Reybrouck -
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The Government of Chance: Sortition and Democracy from Athens to the Present
by Yves Sintomer -
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The End of Politicians: Time for a Real Democracy
by Brett Hennig -
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Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
by Hélène Landemore -
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De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
edited by Min Reuchamps, Julien Vrydagh and Yanina Welp
The best books on Citizens’ Assemblies, recommended by Hugh Pope
The best books on Citizens’ Assemblies, recommended by Hugh Pope
Around the world, democracies are struggling with angry populations who are fed up with politicians who don’t seem to represent them effectively. Fortunately, there’s an alternative. Hugh Pope—a veteran reporter on the Middle East who also spent 15 years working for International Crisis Group—introduces us to the growing movement for ‘citizens’ assemblies’, where ordinary people get together to decide what’s best for the community. He argues that these assemblies have already been used effectively on important issues that are difficult for politicians to tackle and reveals how the French president, Emmanuel Macron, came to find out about them.
