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Index
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
I. The Argument
1. Legislature by Lot: Envisioning Sortition Within a Bicameral System
2. Postscript: The Anticapitalist Argument for Sortition
II. Contemporary Context
3. From Deliberative to Radical Democracy: Sortition and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
4. Random Assemblies for Lawmaking: Prospects and Limits
5. Lessons from a Hybrid Sortition Chamber: The 2012–14 Irish Constitutional Convention
6. Intercameral Relations in a Bicameral Elected and Sortition Legislature
7. Joining Forces: The Sortition Chamber from a Social-Movement Perspective
III. Democratic Principles
8. Should Democracy Work Through Elections or Sortition?
9. Accountability in the Constituent-Representative Relationship
10. How to Ensure Deliberation Within a Sortition Chamber
11. Sortition and Democratic Principles: A Comparative Analysis
12. In Defense of Imperfection: An Election-Sortition Compromise
IV. Alternative Paths Toward Sortition
13. A Gradualist Path Toward Sortition
14. Sortition, Rotation, and Mandate: Conditions for Political Equality and Deliberative Reasoning
15. Who Needs Elections? Accountability, Equality, and Legitimacy Under Sortition
16. Why Hybrid Bicameralism Is Not Right for Sortition
V. Conclusion
17. Sortition’s Scope, Contextual Variations, and Transitions
Notes
Bibliography
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
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