Add to ORKGIf democracy is in a bad state and marred by chronic distrust, what is the remedy? In Against Elections: The Case for Democracy, David Van Reybrouck suggests an ancient solution: sortition, or the selection of officials from the general public through a lottery system. While the book does a great job of opening up discussions of elections, democracy and political power through comprehensive and well-presented historical research, Ben Margulies questions whether the solution to debates over political representation lies in a process of mere chance
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In our extensive online world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweet...
Book review by Steven Michels. Lawler, Peter Augustine, ed. Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocq...
In The Spirit of Compromise, political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show that campaignin...
In this study of democratization, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democraci...
Charles Crawford reviews a book of essays by academics and experts on democracy’s supposed ‘secret h...
Patrick Dunleavy reviews a fascinating, but flawed, history of democratic thinking from an American ...
This year’s ill-fated AV referendum showed that most of the UK population were not in favour of supp...
Any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions to succeed, w...
American Democracy offers a compellingly-argued rethinking of how we might conceptualise America’s d...
Alexander Keyssar's largely intellectual history of suffrage throughout the nation's history and Mar...
In The Despot’s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy, Brian Klaa...
Reviewed Title: Democracy at Risk: how political choices undermine citizen participation and what we...
Electoral administration is a topic that only occasionally and dramatically breaks into the public c...
In How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy, editors Mónica Ferrín and Hanspeter Kriesi offer insig...
The third wave of democratization began in the mid-1970s in Southern Europe. Over time it spread to ...
In our extensive online world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweet...
Book review by Steven Michels. Lawler, Peter Augustine, ed. Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocq...
In The Spirit of Compromise, political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show that campaignin...