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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
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
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