
Keys to Democracy
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- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Keys to Democracy
- Preface
- A Note to Readers on the Structure of the Text
- 1: Defining Democracy
- An Uneducated Electorate
- Apathy
- Alienation
- Democratic Revisionism
- 2: Elected Representation
- The Moment of Voting
- The Vote In Theory
- How Representative Government Developed in Britain
- Our Present Oligarchies
- Proportional Representation
- Verdicts on Representational Government
- 3: Broadening Participation
- The Changing Aims of Protest
- The Fashion for Participation
- Discrimination Diminishes
- Making Space for Workers
- Community Spirit
- A Gradual Opening Up
- Gatherings, Teams and Communities
- A Chiasmus
- 4: The Discovery of Opinion Polls
- Origins and Political Uses
- A Mathematical Breakthrough
- Table of Sampling Errors
- Opinions on Opinion
- The Autocrat's Monopoly on Thought
- Opinion Leaders in Oligarchies
- Free Expression in Open Societies
- Knowing What People Think
- A Second Chiasmus
- Government by Public Opinion Poll
- The Need for Genuine Discussion
- The Undemocratic Side of Assemblies
- 5: The Legitimacy of Juries
- Origin and Development
- A Bastion of Liberty
- The Acceptability of Jury Verdicts
- The Composition of the Jury
- Champions of Common Sense
- 6: The Lost Legacy of Venice
- A Model of Constitutional Government
- Rotation of Office
- Gold and Silver Ballots
- Sortition Disappears
- 7: How Athens Excelled
- An Embarrassing Truth
- The Rediscovery of Athenian Democracy
- The Athenian Constitution
- How the Twentieth Century Overlooked Sortition
- Greek Democracy As Seen by Its Contemporaries
- Retrospect
- 8: In Defence of Randomness
- Platonic Noumenalism and the Epicurean Alternative
- The Status of Sortition
- 9: Why All Citizens Deserve their Turn
- The Limitations of Experts
- The Underestimated Competence of the Layman
- Command and Accountability
- 10: Assembly Required
- Boards and Juries
- Assemblies
- Councils
- General Principles
- Methods of Deliberation
- 11: A Democratic Utopia
- Foundations
- Early Decisions
- Development
- Law and Administration
- Policy-Making
- A Judiciary Without Judges
- The Scale of Public Involvement
- Back to Reality
- 12: Power from the People
- Political Change
- Starting Points
- Further Opportunities
- A Global Ambition
- A Resumé of the Argument
- Back Matter
- Afterword
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Chapter Notes
- Author's Bibliography
- Bibliography for Foreword, Introduction, Footnotes & Appendices
- About the Author
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