Randviscracy

The meaning of democracy has changed over time. The original democracy of the Athenians primarily used random selection, now known as sortition, to select government officials. This was done because the Athenians understood that elections are popularity contests easily influenced by the rich and powerful, which leads to institutional capture. In this book Corey Daniels examines the problem with modern representative democracy, the history of selection by lot from its religious roots in cleromanc