An essay that presents challenges to communicating effectively about sortition, and concrete ways to overcome them.

This essay presents challenges to communicating effectively about sortition, and concrete ways to overcome them.

The authors suggest that there are two main stumbling blocks keeping us from communicating effectively about sortition: (1) an affinity to language that doesn’t always fit our audiences, and (2) a lack of skill and comfort with persuasion — especially in the realm of emotion. As examples, they present typical sortition speech along with concrete ways to overcome these challenges and conclude with an invitation for others to join them in making messaging about sortition more captivating and memorable.

Source: Democracy R&D,
Author information: Adam Cronkright, Simon Pek

Year of publication: 2020

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The front page of the report, with a group of people raising their arms, titled Sharing Sortition.

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Sharing sortition with some soul