Sortition Foundation
The Sortition Foundation is the UK's leading organisation specifically dedicated to sortition — the selection of decision-makers by random lot rather than election. Their flagship campaign is the House of Citizens: replacing the appointed House of Lords with a chamber of randomly selected citizens who serve fixed, non-renewable terms.
Beyond the Lords campaign, the foundation promotes sortition more broadly: in local government, planning processes, and deliberative policy forums. Their case is that random selection produces more representative, less partisan, and more considered decision-making than competitive elections — a position they support with reference to the growing body of evidence from citizens' assemblies worldwide.
The foundation has become a key reference point for anyone working on democratic innovation in the UK and internationally.
Key people
- Brett Hennig — co-founder and author of The End of Politicians: Democratic Alternatives to Them (Scribe Publications, 2017), which makes the systematic case for replacing elected legislatures with sortition-selected assemblies. The foundation's principal public voice internationally.1
Links
- Website: sortitionfoundation.org
See also
- Your Party is using sortition — DOD blog post on a UK party adopting sortition in practice
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Brett Hennig, The End of Politicians: Democratic Alternatives to Them, Scribe Publications, 2017. ↩