Contents

	INTRODUCTION
	The Crisis of Democracy by Kofi Annan
I	SYMPTOMS
	Enthusiasm and mistrust: The paradox of democracy
	Crisis of legitimacy: Support is crumbling
	Crisis of efficiency: Declining vigour
II	DIAGNOSES
	It’s the fault of politicians: The diagnosis of populism
	It’s the fault of democracy: The diagnosis of the technocracy
	It’s the fault of representative democracy: The diagnosis of direct democracy
	It’s the fault of electoral-representative democracy: A new diagnosis
III	PATHOGENESIS
	A democratic procedure: Drawing lots (antiquity and Renaissance)
	An aristocratic procedure: Elections (eighteenth century)
	The democratisation of elections: A bogus process (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
IV	REMEDIES
	The revival of sortition: Deliberative democracy (late twentieth century)
	Democratic innovation in practice: An international quest (2004–2013)
	Democratic innovation in the future: Allotted assemblies
	Blueprint for a democracy based on sortition
	Timely appeal for a bi-representative system
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Bibliography
	Notes
	Index