Demarchy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Demarchy


00:00:51 1 History
00:00:59 1.1 Ancient Athens
00:04:22 1.2 Northern Italy and Venice – 12th to 18th century
00:05:42 1.3 Florence – 14th and 15th century
00:06:46 1.4 Switzerland
00:07:06 1.5 India
00:07:29 2 Modern application
00:08:42 2.1 Modern examples
00:11:06 2.2 Political proposals for sortition
00:11:16 2.2.1 Sortition as part of reworking the state
00:13:10 2.2.2 Sortition to replace elected legislative bodies
00:14:50 2.2.3 Sortition to decide the franchise
00:15:07 2.2.4 Sortition to supplement or replace some of the legislators
00:17:17 2.2.5 Sortition to replace an appointed upper house
00:17:40 3 Advantages
00:17:49 3.1 Effective representation of the interests of the people
00:18:36 3.2 Cognitive diversity
00:19:31 3.3 Fairness and equality
00:20:49 3.4 Democratic
00:21:42 3.5 Anti-corruption
00:23:08 3.6 Empowering ordinary people
00:24:20 3.7 Alleviates the problems of voter fatigue
00:24:42 3.8 Loyalty is to conscience not to political party
00:25:12 4 Disadvantages
00:25:21 4.1 Pure sortition does not discriminate
00:27:30 4.2 Chance misrepresentation
00:28:51 4.3 Voting confers legitimacy
00:30:00 4.4 Individuals not chosen for enthusiasm
00:30:51 4.5 Lack of feedback or accountability
00:31:23 5 Methods
00:33:52 6 See also



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In governance, sortition (also known as selection by lot, allotment, or demarchy) is the selection of political officials as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates, a system intended to ensure that all competent and interested parties have an equal chance of holding public office. It also minimizes factionalism, since there would be no point making promises to win over key constituencies if one was to be chosen by lot, while elections, by contrast, foster it In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy.Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common law-based legal systems and is sometimes used in forming citizen groups with political advisory power (citizens' juries or citizens' assemblies).