The Political Potential of Sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office (Sortition and Public Policy) - Tapa blanda

Libro 9 de 12: Sortition and Public Policy

Dowlen, Oliver

 
9781845401795: The Political Potential of Sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office (Sortition and Public Policy)
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ISBN 10: 1845401794 ISBN 13: 9781845401795
Editorial: Imprint Academic, 2009

Sinopsis

The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition in ancient Athens and in late medieval and renaissance Italy. It also includes commentary on the contributions to sortition made by Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Harrington and Paine; an account of the history of the randomly-selected jury; and new research into lesser-known examples from England, America and revolutionary France.

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Críticas

"His painstaking study... goes a considerable way to recovering a largely subterranean tradition of democratic practice and bringing it to light."

--Allan Pond "The Quarterly Review "

Reseña del editor

The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition in ancient Athens and in late medieval and renaissance Italy. It also includes commentary on the contributions to sortition made by Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Harrington and Paine; an account of the history of the randomly-selected jury; and new research into lesser-known examples from England, America and revolutionary France.

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Editorial
Imprint Academic
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1845401794
ISBN 13 
9781845401795
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
300
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Editorial: Imprint Academic, 2008
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