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

Buch 9 von 12: Sortition and Public Policy

Dowlen, Oliver

 
9781845401795: The Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office (Sortition and Public Policy)

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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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ISBN 10:  1845401379 ISBN 13:  9781845401375
Verlag: IMPRINT ACADEMIC, 2008
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