Democracy In Practice, a small non-profit organization dedicated to democratic innovation, experimentation, and capacity building, recently presented their ‘Student-Powered Democratic Experimentation’ initiative at the World Forum for Democracy in Lab 1: Reinventing school governance.
Their initiative, which was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Democracy Innovation Award, has taken place in public schools in Bolivia and experiments with creative ways of reinventing student government. Instead of holding elections – which heavily advantage the most popular, outgoing, or ambitious students – these schools conduct lotteries to randomly select their student representatives.
