> Require party primaries to be as open and competitive as general elections. This is the traditional American approach, and for all of its own the failure mode

> Require party primaries to be as open and competitive as general elections. This is the traditional American approach, and for all of its own the failure modes that we've seen since 2013, you can't say that the problem has been beigeness enforced by party elites. I think that an excellent argument can be made that the failure modes of American politics have been the result of too-open primaries rather than party-run caucuses. With caucuses, the party elite are able to groom mainstream candidates acceptable to the electorate; primaries (esp. plurality primaries) are susceptible to pluralist capture. > Make heavier use of Sortition and/or policy juries, delegating decisions to randomly-selected deliberative bodies. Now that's a great idea! I think it'd be awesome to have a third, random house in each legislature. Actually ensuring random selection, in a manner acceptable by the populace at large, would be a trick, though.