Is sortition a good idea? : r PoliticalScience - Reddit Sortition is a concept that’s been thrown around quite a bit (most recently here in Australia) I’d say one of the major issues with it is the fact that a majority of individuals selected wouldn’t possess many of the professional skills that most elected representatives currently do, such as legal and procedural knowledge, relationships
Why randomly choosing people to serve in government may be the . . . - Reddit Yet sortition has a powerful advantage here as well Corruption is already legalized in the form of campaign donations in exchange for friendly regulation or legislation Local politicians also oftentimes shake down small businesses, demanding campaign donations or else be over-regulated Sortition fully eliminates these legal forms of corruption
r Sortition - Reddit "In governance, sortition (also known as allotment) is the selection of officers as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the primary method for appointing political officials Sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common law-based legal systems and is sometimes used today (citizens' juries or citizens' assemblies
Athenian Sortition is not suitable for Modern Democracies Forgetting the use of sortition to construct the Athenian People's court and jury duty, the primary purpose of modern day sortition is statistical representative sampling of the public Unlike the Athenians and unlike classical 18th century deists, modern people have a modern understanding of statistics, probability, and sampling
Is it just me or is Sortition kinda busted? : r eu4 - Reddit Yeah I think the strat is using the lottery button to boost through reforms unless you get a really exceptional choice like 656 or something tbh the -25 republican tradition looks scary but your rulers live 25% longer so if you have something like +1 5 rt per year you can get back up to 100 in 16 years
Playing Republican, and Sortition reform : r eu4 - Reddit Sortition sucks always reelect (up RT by spamming mil points) except when your get a new s(4 1 1) that happens to be very old Reelecting on good rulers is better since you don't care about ruler's MP growth; you care about how much MP you get until next reelection
what is the BEST argument AGAINST sortition? : r Sortition - Reddit Sortition could be tried at a local level (town) then city, then county, state, so forth The current system is not "working" by various standards It is less likely than the sponsored elected politicians to be " easily manipulated politicians for companies, organizations, and other enterprises "
A New Way to Select Justices? A sortition approach to Supreme . . . - Reddit Sortition is the approach I've favored even before the recent hard-right, anti-law movement of SCOTUS, but why make it a term? Why not make it per case? 9 justices hear each case, made up of the Chief Justice and 8 randomly selected Article III judges
Randomly choosing people to serve in government - sortition - Reddit Sortition was also used in combination with elections for the selection of leadership in Renaissance-era Italian City States such as a Venice and Florence Examples of sortition have also been documented to be used in Indian tribes In these tribes, sortition results in an egalitarian government where power is shared
What do you think about sortition? Do you still think rule by a . . . Yet sortition has a powerful advantage here as well Corruption is already legalized in the form of campaign donations in exchange for friendly regulation or legislation Local politicians also oftentimes shake down small businesses, demanding campaign donations or else be over-regulated Sortition fully eliminates these legal forms of corruption