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The Dangers of Public Deliberative Institutions
I don't worry terribly much about the unaccountability of the members of the assembly because they are chosen simply at random by lot. What I would be more concerned about is the accountability of the organizers of these processes. It seems to me that decision makers need to be accountable to the wider electorate and without that you risk seriously undermining the integrity of the whole system. So I don't go along with the view that some have expressed that public deliberative institutions could replace elected institutions but they can work alongside elected Institutions. That's what we should be aiming for.