Why sortition is not the solution
In recent debate, some discussants have turned to the idea of lot-based representation drawn from the whole population, described with the term "sortition". Sortition has been used to determine public officials in the antique Athenian democracy and is used for citizen-based juridical juries in many democracies, and since the pioneering works of Peter Dienel in the 1970s and 1980s[1], it has been discussed as a solution to the...