Sortition and Democracy History, Tools, Theories

This book offers a historical analysis of sortition. It brings together a number of the best specialists on political sortition from antiquity to contemporary experiments, in Europe but also in the Ancient Middle East and in imperial China. It demonstrates that sortition has been a crucial device in political history.

Product details

• Assisted by: Liliane Lopez-Rabatel (Editor), Yves Sintomer (Editor)
• Authors: Liliane Sintomer Lopez-Rabatel
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 02.01.2020
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781788360159
• ISBN: 978-1-78836-015-9
• Pages: 530
• Series: Sortition and Public Policy
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Political; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Politics / Current Events; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections