Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer
complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and
the USA. In his book "The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very
English Revolution" (2004), Keith Sutherland questioned the role of
the party in the post-ideological age and concluded that it would
be better for government ministers to be appointed by headhunters
and held to account by a people's parliament selected by lot. This
completely revised and updated edition includes a study of the
recent literature on deliberative polling. The American founders
proposed that their legislature should be 'an exact portrait, in
miniature, of the people at large'. Whether or not this was true at
the time, the exponential growth of the population, skyrocketing
campaign funding, the power of pressure groups, the grease of the
pork-barrel and the dominance of charisma and demagoguery means
that the US Constitution could now better be described as a
kleptocracy. This pioneering essay proposes selecting Congressional
members by random lot (leaving the Senate and Presidency unchanged)
to 'restore a direct, powerful voice in Washington to the whole of
America'. Originally published in 1985, this new edition includes
an introduction by political scientist Peter Stone.
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