sortition

IPA: sˈɔrtˈɪʃʌn

Examples of "sortition" in Sentences

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.
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.