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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Nabila Abbas; Yves Sintomer Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 May 2022
... would be better served by sortition — selection by lottery — than by elections when forming its representative bodies and selecting its leaders. 39. Robertson, “Washington, DC.” The working paper cited in Robertson's Politico report is Ryan Murphy, “Psychopathy by U.S. State,” May 26, 2018...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 193–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... this paradoxical stance, with reference to Plato's allusions to it. First of all, let us look back at the importance that sortition gradually acquired in the development of Athenian democracy. Surviving inscriptions attest to it explicitly: one of the earliest examples comes not directly from Athens but from...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 206–223.
Published: 01 May 2023
... installment, offers arguments for why sortition — the selection of shorter‐duration representatives by lottery from the general population — is the best procedure for democracy. Random selection can assure broad diversity and descriptive representation, and it allows those people selected to overcome...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 312–319.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to Urbinati's prompt, focuses on the place and role of China's experimental lotteries and citizen assemblies in the global discussion of sortition and democracy. Those experiments, at the national but mostly local levels in China, are understood differently from each of the three prevailing perspectives...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the lottery system in the first place—an act of will—and to attain what results.” This is a “political decision (by choice, not chance).” 29 Pronouncing lottocracy “problematic” falls short of a prohibition, but the point is made: democracies cease to exist as such if anything, including sortition, blocks...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 343–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Pierre-Étienne Vandamme Abstract Belgium is at the forefront of democratic innovations involving the use of random selection, with the sortition‐based Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue, institutionalized by the parliament of the German‐speaking community, and the deliberative committees mixing elected...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 173–186.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Oliver Dowlen Abstract Introducing part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this essay summarizes the “untold story” of the random recruitment of citizens for political office in Western Europe. Although sortition was used extensively in ancient Athens and in late medieval Europe...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 163–181.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Nadia Urbinati Abstract In the context of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article responds skeptically to the numerous contributions calling for the supplanting of elections by sortition. While lottocracy is proposed as a solution to the flaws of electoral democracy...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 324–341.
Published: 01 September 2023
... fortunate has raised some troubling questions about democracy itself. Despite its small size, classical Athens offers valuable guidance for tempering current difficulties in both the United States and elsewhere by adopting and adapting the selection of some officials by sortition, direct election by popular...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 206–215.
Published: 01 May 2022
... produce, as Aristotle said, oligarchy rather than democracy, we should rethink majority rule and experiment with sortition as a counterpolitical means of self‐government. “The prescriptions for saving democracy are so much feebler than the explanation of why it is in danger”: the Economist leveled...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 354–358.
Published: 01 September 2024
... frameworks, mechanisms of direct democracy, the delegation of decisions to artificial intelligence systems, and alternative models (such as sortition and liquid democracy) for the selection of decision‐makers. This speculative discourse yielded no firm new models but did underscore the importance...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 326–329.
Published: 01 May 2022
... director of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin and a senior fellow at the French University Institute. His books, which appear in eighteen languages, include The Government of Chance: Sortition and Democracy from Athens to the Present ; Participatory Budgeting in Europe: Democracy and Public Governance...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 359–362.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., of police behavior at the crime scene: a question of such legal nicety that only the judge could decide how the jury should regard it. But speaking, as we have been, of sortition . . . I was called, decades ago, for jury duty in New York City and was asked, along with the other candidates...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 317–323.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Jeffrey M. Perl Abstract In this introduction to part 3 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” the journal's editor argues that, apart from sortition, the best guarantees of safety in a democracy are, first, to augment judicial oversight of all political processes and, second, to exclude...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 329–342.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jane Suiter Abstract Climate action stands as a paramount challenge in contemporary society, but solutions are often impeded by vested interests tied to electoral democracies. As a result, the past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the practice of sortition—a variety of democracy...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 280–282.
Published: 01 May 2023
... l'idéal de tranquillité and a new edition of Sophocles's Ajax with translation and commentary. Oliver Dowlen is an independent researcher affiliated with the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Among his publications are The Political Potential of Sortition and “Citizens...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 January 2024
... on a couple of the author's slips and omissions. However, ancient Greek demokratia did not mean rule by the demos but the power or strength of the demos . And I missed in-depth discussion of sortition and accountability, these two omissions particularly striking to me as a professional student of ancient...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 399–402.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Jewish studies. Pierre-Étienne Vandamme is a senior postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at KU Leuven and the author of Démocratie et justice sociale . He is currently writing a book on hybrid mixtures of electoral democracy, direct democracy, and sortition...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 367–382.
Published: 01 September 2023
... it. 67 Contributors to this symposium as well as other scholars have also suggested, of course, that modern governments would do well to look again at the ancient practice of sortition, seeking to eradicate hierarchical forms of participation, in favor of juries, panels, or deliberative polls...
