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From the talk, "Democracy When the People Are Thinking," part of the 2017 Hannah Arendt Fall Conference, Crises of Democracy,: Thinking in Dark Times, Professor James Fishkin describes the Ancient Greek process of using a Kleroterion, a device used for random sampling by the Council of 500.

James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University, where he is Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) Professor of Political Science. He is also Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of Democracy and Deliberation (Yale 1991), When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (Oxford 2009) and other books. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California. Fishkin is best known for Deliberative Polling, a process that has been conducted in 27 countries. His new book, Democracy When the People Are Thinking will be published in 2018. His new book Democracy When The People Are Thinking will be published by Oxford in the Spring.

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