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Subject(s)

• Representative government and representation—Europe—21st century [Browse]
• Political participation—Europe—21st century [Browse]

Editor

• Grandjean, Geoffrey [Browse]

Summary note

"Sortition is widely used in our political systems to constitute citizen panels. It is now possible to study the limits of this method of selecting our political representatives. This book presents the instututionalisation of sortition while questioning its political consequences in terms of representation and deliberation. Several examples are used, such as the Citizens' Climate Convention in France and the Conference on the Future of Europe. in the end, the book helps to identify the consequences of using sortition with regard to the principles of equality and inclusion. Above all, it offers readers the possibility of continuing to reflect on this method of random selection, while promoting the implementation of greater equality between citizens." -- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index.

Contents

• Sortition in politics: towards an apolitical model of representation? / Geoffrey Grandjean
• On political procedures: pay close attention to all the details / Gil Delannoi
• The necessity of a design-based discourse in the evaluation of random political recruitment / Oliver Dowlen
• Democratic accounts and miscounts? Rancière and Spinoza / Charles Ramond
• Democratic sortition versus epistocratic and statistical decision methods / Jason Brennan
• Inclusion or representation? Questioning the argumentative grounds of random selection for deliberative assemblies / Clarisse Van Bellghem
• Equality of opportunity, equality of outcome and the "democratic" case for lotteries / Annabelle Lever and Chiara Destri
• Democracy without elections and the value of political parties / Pierre-Étienne Vandamme
• Drawing lots in politics: a matter of democratic legitimacy / Dider Mineur
• Democracy as a collective process: a constructivist critique of Hélène Landemor's lottocratic proposals / Stefan Rummens and Raf Geenens
• Defending democracy against lottocracy / Cristina Lafont and Nadia Urbinati
• Turn down the noise on citizen assemblies / Alex Kovner and Keith Sunderland
• From social media to Congress: towards an institutional theory of direct democracy through sortition / Jérôme Hergeux
• Superminority: sortition and the democratic diarchy / Keith Sutherland and Alex Kovner
• The use of sortition in the reconfiguration of democracy by neoliberal governance: a neutralizing but risky operation; the case of the Citizens' Climate Convention in France / Vincent Aerts
• Randomly selected European citizens' panels: could random selection be detrimental to deliberation? / Jessy Bailly
• From Against Elections to Against Sortition? / Archibald Gustin.

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ISBN

• 1788361164
• 9781788361163 ((hardcover))

OCLC

1405188320

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