He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Our legal tradition does provide, however, about the only mechanism that has ever been found that can avoid the public choice problem: sortition, which is supposed to be used in the selection of trial and grand juries, but which today is too often not used at all for grand juries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law:] Reference

There are other things I would favor, such as sortition based election schemes (1), and social policy bonds (2), but this post is already quite long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Million Rally Against Anti-Foreign Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

For example, I seldom find much about how juries were established to avoid the public choice problem, and how they, and other varieties of sortition, seem to be the only solutions anyone has found to the problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law Now Available:] Reference

As we have seen, neither election nor appointment avoids the public choice problem, although there is an opportunity to apply the insights of sortition to the selection of judges, by appointing them not to particular courts, but to a general pool of judges, randomly assigned to courts and cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law:] Reference

What would happen if the senate were chosen by sortition?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

The resignation of Rubrius must be followed by another appeal to sortition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference

The Stanford sortition experiments have taken place over the last quarter century - in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

When pondering the "fringe", as you wish to define it, on the right, or on the left, think sortition-elect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Sometimes called "democracy without elections", sortition is the process of choosing decision makers via a random process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference

My own suggestion would be to select most positions in the executive by sortition - to choose rulers, that is, by a lottery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG] Reference

Mathematically random sortition assignment of federal officials assures equal representation of all political fault lines in government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

No rotation; no appointment by lot; no mode of election operating in the spirit of sortition, or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras. 75-99] Reference

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Although the attraction to the communist party leadership is that real democracy (sortition) doesn't undermine the one-party state it is hard to see how Schumpeterian competition is in any sense more 'democratic'.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

One of the problems with implementing sortition in a wholesale manner in mature Western democracy is, as Tariq Modood pointed out at the BA meeting, having struggled for two centuries gaining the franchise, why would we now want to abandon it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

No rotation, no appointment by lot, no mode of election operating in the spirit of sortition or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects; because they have no tendency, direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duty, or to accommodate the one to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference

But the modern study of sortition is largely in the hands of normative political theorists who are more concerned with Rawlsian speculations on equality and social justice than with designing practical experiments to investigate the institutional framework necessary to enable intelligent and informed decisions from a randomly-selected group of lay people.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

Which brings me back to Professor Hansen, who pointed out in his lecture that, prior to 1828, nobody believed that voting had anything to do with democracy - elections were aristocratic as they were intended to select 'the best' (aristoi); if you want democracy then the only means is sortition (as Bernard Manin has pointed out, this is true in principle, irrespective of the extent of the franchise).    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

Determinitive sortition.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's not always a word for the thing you want to say.] Reference