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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award"
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Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like. Her model is based on the simple idea that, if government by the people is a goal, the people ought to do the governing."
---Nathan Heller, New Yorker"A great defence of both sortition and deliberation as complements to representative democracy."
---Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Open Magazine"A bold exploration of how we can move beyond a purely electoral conception of democratic representation. Using normative democratic theory and real-world examples of innovations in citizen representation, Hélène Landemore argues for a vision of democracy that is more faithful to popular rule, more likely to tap into democratic reason, and more stable and durable than electoral democracy."
---Erica Yu, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics"Ambitious. . . . A scheme that breaks with two liberal-democratic institutions that are usually taken for granted: elections and political parties."
---Jan-Werner Mueller, Project Syndicate"[Landemore] argues that we need a new, more inclusive system of governance that is less elitist and more participatory to cure what ails democracy." * The Nation *
"A fascinating, wide-ranging book."
---Rachael Walsh, International Journal of Constitutional Law"Important."
---Christopher Kutz, Los Angeles Review of Books
