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Thinker
James S. Fishkin
American political scientist at Stanford who devised deliberative polling, a method that combines random samples of citizens with structured deliberation.
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Key ideas
MechanismSortition / citizens' assemblyA body of citizens selected by lot, usually stratified to reflect the population, who learn, deliberate and recommend.ConceptDeliberative democracyThe view that democratic legitimacy depends on informed public deliberation, often organised through randomly selected mini-publics.
Revision history
- 2026-10-23rev 1 — Seed import