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Legislature by Lot - Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance (Paperback)
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Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most
robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class.
The gap between the public and its public officials might seem
unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot presents a
close examination of an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen
through "sortition"-the random selection of lay citizens. It's a
concept that has come to the attention of democratic reformers
across the globe. Proposals for such bodies are being debated in
Australia, Belgium, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and many other
countries. Sortition promises to reduce corruption and create a
truly representative legislature in one fell swoop. In Legislature
by Lot, John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright make the case for pairing
a sortition body with an elected chamber within a bicameral
legislature. Gastil is a leading deliberative democracy scholar,
and Wright a distinguished sociologist and series editor of the
Real Utopias books, of which this is a part. In this volume, they
bring together critics and advocates of sortition who studied
ancient Athens, deliberative polling, political theory, social
movements, and civic innovation. The constellation of voices in
this book lays out a wide variety of ideas for how to implement
sortition, without obscuring its limitations, and examine its
potential for reshaping modern politics. Legislature by Lot
includes sixteen essays that respond to Gastil and Wright's
detailed proposal. Essays comparing it to contemporary reforms see
it as a dramatic extension of deliberative "minipublics," which
gather random samples of citizens to weight public policy dilemmas
without being empowered to enact legislation. Another set of essays
explores the democratic principles underlying sortition and
elections and considers, for example, how a sortition body holds
itself accountable to a public that did not elect it. The third set
of essays consider alternative paths to democratic reform, which
limit the powers of a sortition chamber or more quickly establish a
pure sortition body.
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