Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance has just been published by Verso a few days ago. I contributed a chapter, "Who Needs Elections? Accountability, Equality, and Legitimacy Under Sortition" that questions the premise of the opening chapter of the book: that sortition should only accompany an elected chamber.
However, even as I'm excited by the publication of this new book, I'm thinking today about Erik Olin Wright, who conceived of the "Real Utopias" series and brought so many challenging and brilliant insights to this and his many other works, but sadly passed away recently. It was another book in this series, Deepening Democracy, which he co-edited as well, that started me down the path I'm now on. It was such an honour to meet him and get to know him - and to sing "Bella Ciao" together with him at his house a few short years ago.
