A community that talks about sortition/ lottocracy, a form of democracy where
people are randomly chosen to lead the government. This community is for
discussion, memes, screenshots, articles everything related to Sortition. It can
be humourous, informative, or even critical, but for the latter two please
provide sources. NOTE: all the rules are subject to change. I’ll lay down some
ground rules for now, but when mods change, they may or may not change the
rules. ____________________________________ # Rules ::: spoiler 1. Relevant
discussions only Please keep discussion about sortition only. ::: 2. Respect
everyone. ::: spoiler 3. Please back your arguments with proper citations. Be it
for or against. Make sure you’re quoting credible resources while arguing or
posting things. ::: 4. Self promotion must be relevant to Sortition, and must
require moderator permission.
Hey, so I’ve created a community to discuss and talk about sortition, a type of governance where leaders and officials are chosen at random. This was practiced by ancient Athens, and is considered to be much better at representation than normal democracy.
With a large enough body, it’s true bribery gets harder, but you also have some of the same problems as direct democracy. At some point you’ve basically just made a smaller voting public.
There’s very few things about representative democracy that works exactly as intended, but it does makes (illegal) corruption hard to maintain. A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls. (Obviously there’s a major counterexample right now, but the trend is undeniable)
A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.
I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.
With a large enough body, it’s true bribery gets harder, but you also have some of the same problems as direct democracy. At some point you’ve basically just made a smaller voting public.
There’s very few things about representative democracy that works exactly as intended, but it does makes (illegal) corruption hard to maintain. A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls. (Obviously there’s a major counterexample right now, but the trend is undeniable)
I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.