10. Safeguarding From Influence

A. Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives?, by Michael Schulson, Updated Apr 14, 2017 2:24PM ET, Daily Beast. [return]
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-it-time-to-take-a-chance-on-random-representatives
B. Electoral system, Wikipedia. [return]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system

Examples of those advocating random selection:
A. Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, by Hélène Landemore, Oct 13, 2020, Princeton University Press [return]
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Democracy-Reinventing-Popular-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B0876H66RY/ref=sr_1_1
B. Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials?, by Dylan Matthews, Jan 12, 2022, 1:30pm ET, Vox. [return]
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22878118/jury-duty-citizens-assembly-lottocracy-open-democracy

Membership of the 117th Congress: A Profile [ch 6 ref 12] [return]

A. People with a high degree of narcissism get promoted faster, new research shows. Why?, by David Robson, Sep 1, 2021, BBC – Worklife. [return]
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210830-how-narcissists-climb-the-career-ladder-quickly
B. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, by M.E. Thomas, May 13, 2014, pgs 178-179, Crown. [return]
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Sociopath-Spent-Hiding-Plain/dp/0307956652/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Background Checks in Politics: Just as Important as in Business, by Debbie Lamb, Jan 16, 2017, Sterling. [return]
https://www.sterlingcheck.com/blog/2017/01/background-checks-in-politics/

Fair algorithms for selecting citizens’ assemblies, by Bailey Flanigan, Paul Gölz, Anupam Gupta, Brett Hennig, and Ariel D. Procaccia, Aug 4, 2021, Nature 596, 548–552 (2021). [return]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03788-6