The Government of Chance : Sortition and Democracy from Athens to the Present / Yves Sintomer

Date :

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-1-00-928563-6

EAN : 9781009285636

Fonction publique

Fonctionnaires -- Sélection et nomination

Fonction publique -- Réforme

Clientélisme

Démocratie participative

Relation : The government of chance : sortition and democracy from Athens to the present / Yves Sintomer ; translated from the French by Sarah Louise Raillard with help from Patrick Camiller / Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press

Résumé / Abstract : Electoral democracies are in crisis. To face it, randomly selected deliberative minipublics such as the citizens' assemblies for the climate are organized. Sortition was widespread in history. Can it contribute to a democratic renewal? This book provides the first reconstruction of the government of chance from Athens to contemporary experiments