The Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office (Sortition and Public Policy) - Hardcover

Dowlen, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845401379 ISBN 13: 9781845401375

Verlag: Imprint Academic, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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. This 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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Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag. It is used particularly to allot decision makers. In Ancient Athenian democracy sortition was the primary method for appointing officials, a system that was thought to be one of the principal characteristics of democracy. It is today commonly used to select jurors in Anglo-Saxon based legal systems.
This 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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• Verlag: Imprint Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845401379
• ISBN 13: 9781845401375
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
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