# In an op-ed, Visiting Research Prof. Manuel Arriaga argues that citizen deliberation can help reform democracy

1 Faculty News May 12, 2015 ![Foreign Policy logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030825.jpg?itok=uQL2jfhQ)>

Excerpt from [Foreign Policy](http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/12/democracy-does-not-live-by-tech-alone-citizen-deliberation/) -- "As described in my book, Rebooting Democracy: A Citizen’s Guide to Reinventing Politics, a number of extraordinarily encouraging experiments along these lines have taken place in British Columbia, Oregon, and elsewhere over the last decade. What they all have in common is citizen deliberation: the use of large panels of randomly selected citizens to carefully reflect and decide on complex policy matters, a practice which dates back to ancient Greece. Expanding on this experience could usher in a fundamental change to the nature of government."

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