sortition
IPA: sˈɔrtˈɪʃʌn
noun
- Selection by drawing lots.
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Examples of "sortition" in Sentences
- Sortition is a process of random selection.
- Again, read for example the sortition article.
- You deleted that sortition is a form of democracy.
- I don't think sortition should be merged with demarchy.
- Under sortition the individuals are not chosen for their enthusiasm.
- They used a method of sortition to draw candidates for public office.
- Demarchy is a theoretical system of government that runs on sortition.
- Sortition is not the first idea to come to mind on the subject for anyone.
- Sortition is used in functions outside of national or regional government.
- There are other things I would favor, such as sortition based election schemes (1), and social policy bonds (2), but this post is already quite long.
- The Florentine republic example shows how the process of sortition can be used as a check on arbitrary power and patronage through the anonymous and impartial selection of political office holders.
- For example, I seldom find much about how juries were established to avoid the public choice problem, and how they, and other varieties of sortition, seem to be the only solutions anyone has found to the problems.
- Like most people working in the field (including Anthony Barnett and the present author) Fishkin thought he had invented this system (known technically as 'sortition') only to discover that the Athenians beat him to it 2,400 years ago.
- He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.
- Our legal tradition does provide, however, about the only mechanism that has ever been found that can avoid the public choice problem: sortition, which is supposed to be used in the selection of trial and grand juries, but which today is too often not used at all for grand juries.
- As we have seen, neither election nor appointment avoids the public choice problem, although there is an opportunity to apply the insights of sortition to the selection of judges, by appointing them not to particular courts, but to a general pool of judges, randomly assigned to courts and cases.