A few months ago, Paolo Spada and I published a blog post about sortition and the representativeness of citizens’ assemblies. We were pleasantly surprised by the response to our post and the ensuing discussions.

In this new exchange at the Deliberative Democracy Digest, Kyle Redman, Paolo Spada, and I try to delve deeper, exploring further the challenges of achieving representativeness in deliberative mini-publics. We extend our gratitude to Nicole Curato and Lucy J. Parry from the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance for suggesting and facilitating this discussion.