The Political Potential of Sortition
A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office
Published on 3. April 2017
271 pages
978-1-84540-704-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Luton, Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Windows
File size
1,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84540-704-9 (9781845407049)
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Oliver Dowlen
The Political Potential of Sortition
A study of the random selection of citizens for public office
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07/2009
Imprint Academic
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Series Information
- Preface
- The Political Potential of Sortition
- Introduction
- The Blind Break and its Implications
- Sortition and Political Consolidation in Ancient Athens
- The 'Brevia' and the 'Scrutiny'
- Sortition and the Defence of the Second Florentine Republic
- Sortition in England and America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Sortition During the French Revolutionary Decade
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- On the Decline of Sortition
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Also Available
