I've been intrigued by the idea of something like a city council by lottery for a while now. Government by a random selection of the populace for a fixed interval of time, after which they would be replaced by a different random selection of the populace. Being able to make safeguards for representation of minorities might make this idea even more interesting.
I don't have a lot of perspective on how this kind of thing would actually play out, but it seems to me that even a year of needing to make decisions about the kinds of complicated tradeoffs that a government needs to handle would give the selected people a very different perspective from what you would expect if the same people just met a few times in a citizens' assembly to hash out a narrowly defined question.
@dynamic @tfardet That does sound intriguing. I wonder how the dynamics of influence vs relationship forming would play out. Would it extend well into bigger representation areas? Compensation dynamics would be interesting as well. Require employers to allow government sabbatical, but who pays salary/benefits?
