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In Defense of Deliberative Democratic Assemblies

How randomized citizen juries break legislative gridlock on controversial constitutional reforms.

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In Defense of Deliberative Democratic Assemblies

How randomized citizen juries break legislative gridlock on controversial constitutional reforms.

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