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Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office

Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office

Dowlen, Oliver

Paperback

Series: Sortition and Public Policy

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1845401794
ISBN13: 9781845401795
Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition in ancient Athens and in late medieval and renaissance Italy. It also includes commentary on the contributions to sortition made by Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Harrington and Paine; an account of the history of the randomly-selected jury; and new research into lesser-known examples from England, America and revolutionary France.

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