Democracy Without Politicians with Terry Bouricius
What if elections, which are a cornerstone of democracy, don't produce the outcomes that we desire?
Terry Bouricius spent twenty years as an elected lawmaker in Vermont - city council, then the statehouse - followed by a decade at FairVote trying to fix elections with better elections. Then he quit. Since 2005 he has been the leading American theorist of sortition: choosing the people who govern by lottery, the way we choose juries — a practice rooted in Athenian democracy.
This is a conversation about an idea most Americans have never encountered, and about why it keeps working wherever it…
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