Sortition: a completely different model for democracy - representation by random selection - like a giant pool of jurors!
- By iluvatar5150
- American Politics
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I can't imagine this system being effective in anything larger than a PTA or smallish town council, because it completely discounts the complexity of modern society and government as well as the amount of expertise required to legislate effectively. We only kinda-sorta use random selection in jury trials where jurors have no agency beyond making a decision about what's presented to them. Going by the numbers in the OP, members of the executive council would have terms of 7 years, and members of the legislature would have terms of up to 10 years. How the heck do you manage that with a crew randomly selected from the population? Even getting people to serve on a jury is a struggle, and they typically only serve for a few days. These folks would, essentially, have to give up their careers, and quite possibly their homes, for a decade or longer.
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