{"id":29211,"date":"2023-08-31T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29211"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:17:43","slug":"opinion-the-worst-people-run-for-office-its-time-for-a-better-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29211","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Worst People Run for Office. It\u2019s Time for a Better Way."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/21grant_1-facebookJumbo-v3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"111\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Leaders are less likely to be corrupt when they\u2019re chosen at random.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/21\/opinion\/elections-democracy.html\">Opinion | The Worst People Run for Office. It\u2019s Time for a Better Way.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>i wonder where this was done in canada?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Other countries have begun to see the promise of sortition. Two decades ago, Canadian provinces and the Dutch government\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/344480119_Public_Support_for_Citizens'_Assemblies_Selected_through_Sortition_Survey_and_Experimental_Evidence_from_15_Countries__%3B!!IBzWLUs!W47OVTij-_cxaGzmghoW-n1jKU2uNSSWs3PFrga_qiBlt5jhxsYYRnc34Xx9M3o_GeJXhcZbdHe5OdGo6kWaHI3ShlUoETM$\" target=\"_blank\">started<\/a>\u00a0using sortition to create citizens\u2019 assemblies that generated ideas for improving democracy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders are less likely to be corrupt when they\u2019re chosen at random&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-29211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-politics","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions\/29215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}