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• Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy
• David Van Reybrouck, Against Elections
• Yves Sintomer, The Government of Chance
• John Gasatil and Erik Olin Wright, Legislature by Lot

Go deeper

• Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government
• Nicole Curato et al., Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features
• Jane Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy
• Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy
• Maurice Pope, The Keys to Democracy
• John Gastil and Katherine Knobloch, Hope for Democracy
• John Burnheim, Is Democracy Possible?
• Stephen Coleman, Anna Przybylska and Yves Sintomer, Deliberation and Democracy: Innovative Processes and Institutions
• Felipe Rey Salamanca, El Sistemo Representativo
• Loïc Blondiaux and Bernard Manin, Le tournant délibératif de la démocratie
• Min Reuchamps, Julien Vrydagh and Yanina Welp, De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
• Claudia Chwalisz, The People’s Verdict

On democratic innovation

• Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar, Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
• Vincent Jacquet, Matt Ryan, Ramon van der Does, The Impacts of Democratic Innovations
• Graham Smith, Democratic Innovations

On collective intelligence

• Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, and Lex Paulson, The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
• Hélène Landemore, Democratic Reason
• Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason
• Martin Ringer Rob Gordon Bert Vandenbussche Sam Corijn, The Collective Spark

Broader theoretical and philosophical underpinnings

• David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
• Jon Alexander, Citizens
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition and On Revolution
• David Bohm, On Dialogue
• James Bridle, Ways of Being
• Paul Cartledge, Democracy
• Nicholas A. Christakis, Blueprint
• Claudia Chwalisz, The Populist Signal
• John Dewey, The Public and its Problems
• Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think
• Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Meda, Democratize Work
• Francis Fukuyama, Identity
• David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
• Annie Murphy Paul, The Extended Mind
• Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity
• Amanda Ripley, High Conflict
• Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice
• James Scott, Seeing Like a State
• David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy
• Olufemi Taiwo, Elite Capture
• Ece Temelkuran, Together and How to Lose a Country
• Camilla Vergara, Systemic Corruption
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

• Carmel Baharav and Bailey Flanigan, "Fair, manipulation-robust and transparent sortition" (2024).
• Simon Niemeyer, Francesco Veri, John S. Dryzek, Andre Bachtiger “How Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason” (2023).
• Daniel Hoek and Richard Bradley, "Million dollar questions: why deliberation is more than information pooling" (2022).
• Katherine Knobluch, Michael Barthel, and John Gastil, “Emanating Effects: The Impact of the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review on Voters’ Political Efficacy” (2019).
• Jane Suiter, Lala Muradova, John Gastil, and David Farrell, “Scaling up Deliberation: Testing the Potential of Mini-Publics to Enhance the Deliberative Capacity of Citizens” (2020).
• Vincent Jacquet, Christoph Niessen, and Min Reuchamps, “Sortition, its advocates and its critics: An empirical analysis of citizens’ and MPs’ support for random selection as a democratic reform proposal” (2020).
• Dryzek J. S.et al., “The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation” (2019).
• Jane Suiter, “Deliberation in Action – Ireland’s Abortion Referendum” (2018).
• The Prospects and Limits of Deliberative Democracy, Edited issue by James Fishkin and Jane Mansbridge in Daedalus (2017).
• Kimmo Grönlund, Kaisa Herne, and Maija Setälä, “Does enclave deliberation polarize opinions?” (2015)
• Terrill Bouricius, “Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day” (2013).