Tailor designs

Process organizers estimate the impact of design decisions informed by anecdotal experiences and their intuitive heuristics and/or opt to follow more established best practices out of fear of process failure, meaning they generate more 'practice as usual' designs regardless of the unique situation.

Citizens' assembly organizers combine their experience and heuristics with the political theory and political science literature to make informed design decisions, but the evidence base is insufficient to make strong predictions. For example: stratification quotas for lotteries serve a range of key outcomes; the extent to which marginal decisions impact outcomes is unknown.