Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a Model for Citizen Power

by Maurice Pope

Sortition -- also known as random selection -- puts ordinary people in control of decision-making in government. This may seem novel, but it is how the original Athenian democracy worked. In fact, what is new is our belief that electoral systems are democratic. It was self-evident to thinkers from Aristotle to the Renaissance that elections always resulted in oligarchies, or rule by elites.

In this distillation of a lifetime's thinking about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788360974
• ISBN13: 9781788360975
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"