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What are the limits of intersectional representation in sortition algorithms and where are trade-offs most present?

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Deep intersectional representation that more closely matches the constituent population (even with high-quality selection pools).

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Select participants

Representativeness
Ability to fairly select participants according to some definition of representation.
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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).
Bailey Flanigan, Paul Gölz, Anupam Gupta, Brett Hennig and Ariel D. Procaccia