Democratic rotation: could a lottery system revitalise US political institutions?

The American political system is gridlocked and its democratic norms are shaken. In the second of two articles for IF’s Worldwide Blog Week on renewing the legal and political institutions of the United States, Julia M. Puaschunder, an economist and psychologist at ​​Inter-University Consortium of New York, considers the history of the lottery system in… Read more »

Intergenerational Equity and the US Judiciary

Intergenerational equity concerns have grown significantly over recent decades, and our political and legal systems are skewed in ways which can exacerbate and intensify these issues. Julia M. Puaschunder, an economist and psychologist at the ​​Inter-University Consortium of New York, discusses intergenerational fairness in the US Judiciary with attention to age-balanced decision-making. Intergenerational inequality on… Read more »