Sentences with word «sortition»

Back in reality, a second chamber elected by sortition feels a long way off.

According to this article, Demarchy is a form of statistical representative democracy which rely on collective intelligence: Improving on the age - old model of sortition democracy, by which the...

Given the ambiguity around the term demarchy it is, in my opinion, much better to talk about sortition.

I'm not sure exactly how, but very recently a number of people online have started to use demarchy as a general term used to mean «sortition based democracy».

John Burnheim, an Australian philosophy professor, was the first to use the term in relation with sortition.

Depending on the particular system in use, direct democracy might entail passing executive decisions, the use of sortition, making laws, directly electing or dismissing officials, and conducting trials.

If the key is to unlock democracy, should we not be perfecting our forms of Parliamentary representation --(election by sortition, for example)-- in lieu of removing public policy all the farther away from the people whose consent is supposed to confer legitimacy?

What is the difference between demarchy and sortition?

The democratic principles of legitimacy and representativeness are better met by lottery («sortition») than by election.

At a stroke, sortition — selection by lot — would achieve Andrew Adonis's and Paul Tyler's objectives (Status quo is not an option, Comment, 23 April) of making the second chamber more representative (in the same way a jury is representative) and cheaper to run (I'm sure most of us would accept a fraction of the daily # 300 peers currently get for attendance).

His proposal in no way included the use of sortition.

As defined by Wikipedia, sortition is a necessary implementation of demarchy - It is simply an official sounding name for a process of randomly choosing, which is how demarchy works.

Can demarchy work with any other selection system than sortition?

In politics, sortition (also known as allotment or the drawing of lots) is the selection of decision makers by lottery.

And can sortition be used in any system that is not a demarchy?

Perhaps one of the most promising of these is the creation of a second chamber composed of members of the public chosen by sortition — a processes whereby political representatives are selected by a lottery, similar to the method of jury selection.

Campbell Wallace, suggesting «sortition» as a democratic solution, says that «the Greeks of Aristotle's day knew that elections could lead...

Campbell Wallace proposes the «sortition» solution adopted to pick legislators by lot in ancient Athens (Letters, 20 May).

Athenian democracy selected decision - makers by lot to get a statistically representative sample of the whole community: this is called «sortition ``.