"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Democracy, modern and ancient; 2. Sortition's second birth in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period; 3. The disappearance of sortition in politics: a historical enigma; 4. The return of sortition: the deliberative minipublics; 5. Sortition and politics in the 21st Century.