Postdoctoral researcher at @harvard.edu | PhD. in political science
Focus: Citizens' Assembly, Democracy, Deliberation, Sortition
President of @di-apsa.bsky.social
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Dimitri Courant
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The real divide isn't between supporters & opponents of sortition. It's between those who want to give more power to the people & those who want to keep citizens' assemblies in a consultative role under elected officials' control. The data are clear for now.
#Power #ElectedOfficials #Representative
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2) The institutional model with the most relative support is radical democracy: the people set the agenda of deliberative citizens' assemblies upstream via petition, then ratify (or not) their proposals downstream via referendum.
#Democracy #CitizensAssemblies #Petition #Referendum #Institutions
Respondents appear unconvinced by tamed consultation (consultative mini-publics under elected officials' control) or by representative klerocracy (sovereign sortition). Unlike the debate in political theory opposing lottocrats and anti-lottocrats.
#MiniPublics #Lottocracy #PoliticalTheory #Debate
1) 53% of French citizens support replacing the Senate with a randomly selected assembly. An absolute majority. The Senate combines a representativeness deficit (composition very far from the actual population) and a legitimacy deficit (indirect election by grand electors).
#Senate #RandomSelection
Methodological note: 56% of those skeptical toward citizens' assemblies are so because they see them as "a sham that allows politicians to buy time." This isn't a critique of deliberative sortition. It is a critique of tamed consultation.
#Politics #Consultation #Politicians #Citizens #Deliberation
What the French want: citizens' assemblies that serve the people, but not elected officials, and without becoming sovereign. Both the anti-lottocrats' skepticism (marginal mini-publics) and the klerocrats' enthusiasm (sovereign sortition) miss the mark.
#Sortition #People #Election #France #Data
My note " #Deliberative System and #CitizensAssemblies: What Kind of #Democracy Do the French Want?" has just been published @cevipof.bsky.social. It draws on data from the DeCoDe survey & its 2,500 respondents. Two findings should be taken seriously. 🧵
www.sciencespo.fr/cevipof/site...
#Sortition
"53% of French citizens support replacing the Senate with a randomly selected assembly. An absolute majority."
Wow! #SortitionFR #Lottocracy
www.sciencespo.fr
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My note " #Deliberative System and #CitizensAssemblies: What Kind of #Democracy Do the French Want?" has just been published @cevipof.bsky.social. It draws on data from the DeCoDe survey & its 2,500 respondents. Two findings should be taken seriously. 🧵
www.sciencespo.fr/cevipof/site...
#Sortition
