Books by Yves Sintomer
“This book is amazing. It’s really rich in research. What I find fascinating is that Yves Sintomer had never heard or read anything by my father, but chose roughly the same kinds of examples to show how sortition moved through the ages. It’s much more detailed, however. He’s not trying to make it an easy read. He’s trying to make sure that everyone understands what each historical stage of sortition meant at the time and could mean now.” Read more...
The best books on Citizens’ Assemblies
Hugh Pope, Development & Aid Workers (see also Economists)
Interviews where books by Yves Sintomer 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.
