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A People's Parliament: 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. A Citizen Legislature: 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 Preside

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: People's Parliament/A Citizen Legislature
• Author: Michael Phillips
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9781845401382
• ISBN: 9781845401382
• ID: 06478336
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Weight: 646 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 173 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2008

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