Sortition
Thoery and Practice
Published on 5. October 2016
180 pages
978-1-84540-700-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume reflects the up-and-coming academic interest in sortition. It is based on contributions to the first international conference dedicated to the subject held at the University of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Paris in November 2008.The papers explore important theoretical questions such as how we should recognise and define differing lottery forms; the relationship between sortition and different aspects and forms of democracy; and its potential benefits to current political and commercial practice.Contributors include: Hubertus Buchstein, Gil Delannoi, Oliver Dowlen, Gerhard Goehler, Barbara Goodwin, Michael Hein, Yves Sintomer, Peter Stone and Antoine Vergne.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Sortition
- Introduction
- The Modern Revival of an Old Idea
- Exploring the Boundaries of Theory and Practice
- Connecting the Past and Future of Sortition
- Reflections on Two Typologies for Random Selection
- Random Selection and Deliberative Democracy
- Sortition and Liberal Democracy
- A Brief Survey of the Literature of Sortition
- New Perspectives Connecting Theory and Practice
- Controlling Politics by Sortition
- Lotteries, Markets and Fair Competition
- Randomizing Europe
- Lotteries and Probability Theory
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Also Available
