From Dahl to O’Leary: 36 Years of the “Yale School of Democratic Reform”

Snider, J. H.

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“…The modern trend in this regard emerged in the 1970s and 1980s (see, e.g. Dahl, 1970Dahl, , 1989, though proposals have since become increasingly common through a new wave of participatory and deliberative democrats (Snider, 2007). While the more modest proposals envision randomly selected bodies playing an advisory role-to elected representatives (Dahl, 1970), the general public (Gastil, 2000), or both simultaneously (Fishkin & Luskin, 2006)-the more ambitious propose randomly selected bodies with actual decisionmaking powers (Lucardie, 2014).…”

Section: Random Selection Of Political Representatives: Prior Work Anmentioning

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Democracy Transformed: Perceived Legitimacy of the Institutional Shift from Election to Random Selection of Representatives

Pek

Kennedy

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2018

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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While democracy remains a firmly-held ideal, the present state of electoral democracy is plagued by growing disaffection. As a result, both scholars and practitioners have shown considerable interest in the potential of random selection as a means of selecting political representatives. Despite its potential, deployment of this alternative is limited by concerns about its perceived legitimacy. Drawing on an inductive analysis of the replacement of elections with random selection in two student governments in Bolivia, we explore stakeholders' perceptions of the legitimacy of random selection by investigating both their overall support for randomly selecting representatives as well as the views that inform this support. Overall, we find that random selection is indeed accepted as a legitimate means of selecting representatives, with stakeholders broadly preferring random selection and recommending its use in other schools-views which are informed by a critical assessment of random selection's relative merits. Moreover, we find that perceptions may be affected by contextual factors that extend beyond individuals' own values. Our findings thus contribute to work on random selection, its contextual embeddedness, and on the values underpinning democratic structures.

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Section: Random Selection Of Political Representatives: Prior Work Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democracy Transformed: Perceived Legitimacy of the Institutional Shift from Election to Random Selection of Representatives

Pek

Kennedy

Cronkright

2018

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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From Dahl to O’Leary: 36 Years of the “Yale School of Democratic Reform”

Abstract: A review of Kevin O’Leary’s book, Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America.

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Democracy Transformed: Perceived Legitimacy of the Institutional Shift from Election to Random Selection of Representatives

Democracy Transformed: Perceived Legitimacy of the Institutional Shift from Election to Random Selection of Representatives

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