More from Antoine Vergne

Cover image for The Politics of Presence

Antoine Vergne

Dec 3

The Politics of Presence

The power of physical presence: reinventing democracy to combat populism

Cover image for Decision Lego:
A primitive on Governance for the 21st Century

Antoine Vergne

Mar 7

Decision Lego: A primitive on Governance for the 21st Century

What if collective decision making could be imagined as a big lego game? Answer: It can.

Cover image for Towards an intersubjective concept of Sortition

Antoine Vergne

Nov 15

Towards an intersubjective concept of Sortition

The challenge2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the first known “minipublics”. Since then, the discussion about the “right” process for selecting citizens through random selection for a political office (aka sortition) is ongoing. Major progress has been made in the theoretical and practical field. We have seen a strong community of practitioners gather; an incredible amount of research being made. In some cases, we have even seen a full circle: For example, in Germany door to door recruitmen...