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In recent years there has been great interest in new forms of citizen participation, such as citizens' assemblies or deliberative polls that involve ordinary citizens in political decision-making. Many see these innovations as the best solution to the current crisis of democracy. The most radical among them propose replacing elections with the random selection of ordinary citizens, transforming electoral democracy into a lottocracy. These developments are driven by a lottocratic mentality that is deeply transforming our understanding of democracy, political equality, representation, and more.
In The Lottocratic Mentality, Lafont and Urbinati focus on this way of thinking, which is flourishing in public debates, inspiring the organization of citizens' assemblies worldwide, and bridging democratic and nondemocratic regimes in the vision of a unified global order based on problem-solving allotted assemblies, free from electoral competition.
The authors' analysis shows that it amounts to a worrisome form of technopopulism that justifies conferring legislative power on randomly selected assemblies based on a mixture of populist and technocratic grounds. This lottocratic mentality legitimizes the anti-democratic idea that the many should be "ruled" by "the few" chosen by chance. Against this view, they show how lottery-based institutions could be used with the democratic aim of empowering the citizenry, but only if the lottocratic mentality is rejected.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Rise of the Lottocratic Mentality
1: The Lottery Revival
2: Deliberative Democracy's Turn to Lottery-Based Institutions
3: The Clash Between Electoral Democracy and Lottocracy: Three Options
4: The Targets of Lottocracy Revisited
II. What's Wrong with the Lottocractic Mentality?
5: Disempowering The People: The Lottocratic Reinterpretation Of Political Equality
6: A Sample Embodying Everyone: A New Populist Conception of Representation
7: The Technocratic Conception Of Politics
III. Lottery Without the Lottocratic Mentality
8: The Democratic Alternative: Institutionalizing Minipublics to Empower the Citizenry
Conclusion
References
Index
