The Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office - Rilegato

Libro 9 di 12: Sortition and Public Policy

Dowlen, Oliver

 
9781845401375: The Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office
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ISBN 10: 1845401379 ISBN 13: 9781845401375
Casa editrice: Imprint Academic, 2008

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The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition in ancient Athens and in late medieval and renaissance Italy. It also includes commentary on the contributions to sortition made by Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Harrington and Paine; an account of the history of the randomly-selected jury; and new research into lesser-known examples from England, America and revolutionary France. The DPhil thesis on which this book was based was nominated by Oxford University for the Sir Ernest Barker Prize in Political Theory for 2007.

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Book by Dowlen Oliver

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Editore
Imprint Academic
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1845401379
ISBN 13 
9781845401375
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
300
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Buchpark GmbH
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9781845401795: The Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office

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ISBN 10:  1845401794 ISBN 13:  9781845401795
Casa editrice: Imprint Academic, 2009
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