Democracy Without Politicians : Government by the People.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouricius, Terry.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This book explains how electoral "democracy" is inherently undemocratic - enshrining rule by elites rather than popular self-rule - and argues that sortition (the use of random selection to form genuinely representative deliberative bodies) is a superior democratic alternative.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Part I: The Current Situation

1 Democracy in Dysfunction

2 The Hopes and Claims of Democracy and Elections

3 Electoral Imperatives

4 The Inadequacy of Election Reform

Part II: Foundations of Democracy

5 Historical Roots

6 Representation

7 Neuro-Politics

8 Competitive Electoralism

9 Participatory Democracy

10 Deliberative Democracy

Part III: Sortition

11 The Sortition Solution

12 Objections to Sortition

13 Accountability and Legitimacy

14 The Re-Emergence of Sortition

15 Other Uses of Sortition

16 Sortition Design for the Future

17 A Transition to Sortition Democracy

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-056493-3

9781003665373

OCLC:

1583174249