Democracy Manifesto - A Dialogue on Why Elections Need to Be Replaced With Sortition

Elections are not the solution to political crisis, they're the problem. In lively dialogue form, The Democracy Manifesto explains why elections are anti-democratic and should be replaced with government in which decision-makers are randomly selected from the population at large.

List of contents

Part I: Democratizing Government
Chapter 1. Going Democratic
Chapter 2. The Democratic Ideal
Chapter 3. Phase One: Launching Democracy
Chapter 4. Phase Two: Democracy in Action
Chapter 5. Phase Three: The Ruling Assembly (Demarchy)
Chapter 6. International Democracy: Foreign Affairs and War
Chapter 7. High Quality Information - Democracy's Lifeblood
Part II: Democratizing Society
Chapter 8. The Economy
Chapter 9. Mass Media
Chapter 10. Politics without Politicians
Chapter 11. Constitutional Democracy
Chapter 12. Institutional Democracy

About the author

By Wayne Waxman and Alison McCulloch

Summary

Elections are not the solution to political crisis, they're the problem. In lively dialogue form, The Democracy Manifesto explains why elections are anti-democratic and should be replaced with government in which decision-makers are randomly selected from the population at large.

Product details

• Authors: Alison McCulloch, McCulloch Alison, Wayne Waxman, Wayne Mcculloch Waxman, Waxman Wayne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793653987
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-398-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Civil rights & citizenship, Elections & referenda, Civics and citizenship, Elections and referenda / suffrage