Contents

Preface: The Real Utopias Series, Wright

I. THE ARGUMENT

1. Legislature by Lot: Envisioning Sortition Within a Bicameral System, Gastil and Wright

2. Postscript: The Anticapitalist Argument for Sortition, Wright

II. CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

3. From Deliberative to Radical Democracy: Sortition and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, Sintomer

4. Random Assemblies for Lawmaking: Prospects and Limits, Fishkin

5. Lessons from a Hybrid Sortition Chamber: The 2012–14 Irish Constitutional Convention, Arnold, Farrell, and Suiter

6. Intercameral Relations in a Bicameral Elected and Sortition Legislature, Vandamme, Jacquet, Niessen, Pitseys, and Reuchamps

7. Joining Forces: The Sortition Chamber from a Social-Movement Perspective, Felicetti and della Porta

III. DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES

8. Should Democracy Work Through Elections or Sortition? Malleson

9. Accountability in the Constituent-Representative Relationship, Mansbridge

10. How to Ensure Deliberation Within a Sortition Chamber, Carson

11. Sortition and Democratic Principles: A Comparative Analysis, Courant

12. In Defense of Imperfection: An Election-Sortition Compromise, Abizadeh

IV. ALTERNATIVE PATHS TOWARD SORTITION

13. A Gradualist Path Toward Sortition, Burks and Kies

14. Sortition, Rotation, and Mandate: Conditions for Political Equality and Deliberative Reasoning, Owen and Smith

15. Who Needs Elections? Accountability, Equality, and Legitimacy Under Sortition, Hennig

16. Why Hybrid Bicameralism Is Not Right for Sortition, Bouricius

V. CONCLUSION

17. Sortition’s Scope, Contextual Variations, and Transitions, Gastil and Wright

Notes

Bibliography

About the Authors

Acknowledgments