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Select participants
Ability to fairly select participants according to some definition of representation.
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers use existing algorithms and tools to implement the normative selection criteria that they set out. 100+ citizens’ assemblies around the world at every level of governance have used these. They take a pool of willing participants and select a final ‘panel’ that adheres to set criteria.
Related Resources
Research
Fair algorithms for selecting citizens’ assemblies
Sortition algorithms have been designed to select participants according to quotas, balancing representativeness, fairness and manipulation resistance (Flanigan, 2021; Baharav, 2024).
Research
Fair, manipulation-robust, and transparent sortition
Proposes the "Goldilocks" equality objective for sortition algorithms that balance fairness, manipulation-robustness, and transparency when selecting representative panels for Citizens' Assemblies. The algorithm ensures no volunteer receives too little or too much chance of selection, achieving n...
Research
Alternates, Assemble! Selecting Optimal Alternates for Citizens' Assemblies
Develops an optimization framework for selecting alternate participants for citizens' assemblies to minimize expected demographic imbalance when dropouts occur. The method uses historical data to estimate dropout likelihood and provides theoretical guarantees regarding sample requirements and est...
Product
Panelot
Panelot is a not-for-profit sortition tool that facilitates random citizen selection for deliberative panels in a way that is representative of the population and fair to volunteers. It operates through a two-step process: first generating a fair distribution across multiple panels meeting demogr...
Related goals and research questions
Goal: Tools that better understand the impacts on outcomes and trade-offs implicit in making specific design decisions such as the depth or kinds of intersections types of representation and fairness.
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