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

Book 9 of 12: Sortition and Public Policy

Dowlen, Oliver

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9781845401375: The Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office
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Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2008

Synopsis

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. The DPhil thesis on which this book was based was nominated by Oxford University for the Sir Ernest Barker Prize in Political Theory for 2007.

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"His painstaking study... goes a considerable way to recovering a largely subterranean tradition of democratic practice and bringing it to light."

(Allan Pond The Quarterly Review)

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Publisher
Imprint Academic
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1845401379
ISBN 13 
9781845401375
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
300
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