Allotted chambers as defenders of democracy

Malkopoulou, Anthoula; Stone, Peter

doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12580

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“…5Similar arguments are developed in Delannoi, Dowlen and Stone (2013) and Stone and Malkopoulou (2022).…”

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Trends in Theorizing Sortition

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2024

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In recent years, political scientists have devoted increasing attention to sortition – the random selection of ordinary citizens for political decision-making. This has been accompanied by a number of real-world experiments in which randomly-selected bodies provide input into the political process. The result has been a large and growing literature on the topic. Recent contributions to that literature have detailed proposals for expanded use of sortition, most of which combine election and sortition in innovative and ambitious ways. The use of sortition in these proposals is justified in various ways, many of which involve the way random selection can generate bodies capable of high-quality deliberation. There is more controversy regarding the connection between sortition and democracy. Some regard sortition as a uniquely democratic selection mechanism, while others regard election and sortition as advancing competing democratic values, generating the need for a tradeoff between them. Future research on sortition will no doubt further explore both the value of sortition and its democratic credentials.

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“…As mentioned, the proposal combines elements from both Müller (2022) and Stone and Malkopoulou (2022). We will now in turn address its general justifiability, its feasibility and its likely effectiveness.…”

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“…Landa and Pevnick 2021). Stone and Malkopoulou (2022) are less reluctant to give CAs a significant role in the defense of democracy. They point out that CAs would not be tied to specific parties and could not in the same manner as parliaments and/or executives, and even the courts, be instrumentalized by some parties (the government) to repress their opponents.…”

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Between militant democracy and citizen vigilantism: Using citizens’ assemblies to keep parties democratic

Olsen,

Tuovinen

2023

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The essential role of parties in democracies makes it important to keep them democratic. This article argues for sortition-based citizens’ assemblies (CAs) organized in and by civil society to formulate democratic standards for political parties to follow, to evaluate them individually and to criticize them publicly if they do not. This is a third and potentially complementary way to keeping parties democratic, placed between militant democracy on the one hand and citizen vigilantism on the other. Militant democracy is challenged by the fact that few democratically problematic parties are ostensibly anti-democratic and therefore likely to fall under the legal criteria for issuing party bans and other legal sanctions. Militant democratic measures are also likely to be ineffective and are vulnerable to abuse. Citizen vigilantism, whereby active democratic citizens take on the responsibility for protecting democracy, deals better with the ambiguous nature of democratically problematic parties but suffers from a lack of democratic authorization and clear standards of critique. While not perfect, the proposed model remedies many of the shortcomings of both approaches. Contributing to an emerging literature on CAs as instruments in the protection of democracy, the article evaluates the model’s normative justifiability, feasibility and likely effectiveness.

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Politics of Emancipation: A Feminist Defense of Randomly Selected Political Representatives

Khoban

2022

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Allotted chambers as defenders of democracy

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Trends in Theorizing Sortition

Trends in Theorizing Sortition

Between militant democracy and citizen vigilantism: Using citizens’ assemblies to keep parties democratic

Politics of Emancipation: A Feminist Defense of Randomly Selected Political Representatives

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