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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by David Van Reybrouck
Title Page
Epigraph
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
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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