The lottocratic mentality

• Verfasst von: Lafont, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Urbinati, Nadia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The lottocratic mentality
• Titelzusatz: defending democracy against lottocracy
• Verf.angabe: Cristina Lafont, Nadia Urbinati
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 278 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-198290-3
• DOI: doi:10.1093/9780191982903.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Lafont, Cristina, 1963 - : The lottocratic mentality. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024. - viii, 278 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: ME 3900
• RVK-Notation: ME 3000
• RVK-Notation: MS 4400
• RVK-Notation: NK 6500
• Sach-SW: Politics and Government
• Sach-SW: Politics & government
• K10plus-PPN: 1916074952
• K10plus-PPN:
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Abstract

In recent years there has been great interest in new forms of citizen participation. Many see these innovations as the best solution to the current crisis of democracy. The most radical among them propose replacing elections with the random selection of ordinary citizens, transforming electoral democracy into a lottocracy. These developments are driven by a lottocratic mentality that is deeply transforming our understanding of democracy, political equality, representation, and more. In this book, Lafont and Urbinati focus on this way of thinking, which is flourishing in public debates, inspiring the organization of citizens' assemblies worldwide, and bridging democratic and nondemocratic regimes in the vision of a unified global order based on problem-solving allotted assemblies, free from electoral competition.