Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise
Tirage au sort, la démocratie et l'expertise citoyenne
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This paper looks at Alexander Guerrero's epistemic case for 'lottocracy', or government by randomly selected citizen assemblies. It argues that Guerrero fails to show that citizen expertise is more likely to be elicited and brought to bear on democratic politics if we replace elections with random selection. However, randomly selected citizen assemblies can be valuable deliberative and participative additions to elected and appointed institutions even when citizens are not bearers of special knowledge or virtue individually or collectively.
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Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise. Res Publica fv march 2023.pdf (309.8 Ko)
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