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    In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. In ancient...
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    an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral...
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    in order to randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes. Coin flipping was known to...
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  • core principle of Algorand consensus is the cryptographic "self" sortition. The sortition procedure runs locally and privately, on each node of the network...
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  • rather than acquiring their positions by inheritance or sortition (at the Greco-Roman time, sortition was conventionally regarded as the principal characteristic...
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  • dilemmas. With Athenian democracy as the most famous government to use sortition, theorists and politicians have used citizens' assemblies and other forms...
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    direct democracy might entail passing executive decisions, the use of sortition, making laws, directly electing or dismissing officials, and conducting...
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  • Cleromancy is a form of sortition (casting of lots) in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling...
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    Drawing lots or drawing straws is a selection method, or a form of sortition, that is used by a group to choose one member of the group to perform a task...
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    The Sortition Law (Portuguese: Lei do Sorteio), officially Law No. 1,860 of 4 January 1908, introduced compulsory military service for the Brazilian Armed...
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  • is to make a random selection, and may refer to: Cleromancy, a form of sortition in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered...
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  • The rasga-listas (English: list tearers or list rippers) were resistance movements to the 1874 lottery law for compulsory military service in the Empire...
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  • Land by Joshua; see Book of Joshua#Division of the land (chapters 13–22) Sortition or allotment, a method of selection by lottery The Allotment, a 1988 book...
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  • epistemic and probabilist argument in favour of democratic inclusion and sortition. Hélène Landemore proposes a new paradigm, "Open Democracy," which rests...
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  • with social justice in mind. It consisted of 150 citizens selected by sortition and stratified sampling, who were sorted into five sub-groups to discuss...
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  • (2011) To Reason Why (A memoir) Citizens' assembly Deliberative democracy Sortition "John Bernard Burnheim". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 November 2023. Retrieved...
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  • selected as a magistrate, or to sit on a jury. Allotment, also called sortition, is today used in the selection of jurors in Anglo-Saxon legal systems...
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  • There have been various proposals to integrate sortition into government structures. The idea is that sortition could introduce a new dimension of representation...
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    Members of a constituent assembly may be elected by popular vote, drawn by sortition, appointed, or some combination of these methods. Assemblies are typically...
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  • only wealthy males could vote, and the Athenian democracy, which used sortition to elect candidates, almost always male, Greek, educated citizens holding...
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    the members of the Italian Senate through sortition, and possibly eventually replacing elections with sortition altogether. On 7 December 1981 Grillo lost...
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    Medieval Italy Italian Renaissance Italian city-states Maritime republics Sortition Signoria on Encyclopædia Britannica "Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance...
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  • Democracy (section Sortition)
    established in 1115, was led by the Signoria whose members were chosen by sortition. In the 10th–15th century Frisia, a distinctly non-feudal society, the...
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  • Plurality Primary Partisan Nonpartisan Proportional Recall Retention Snap Sortition Two-round system Unfair Terminology Anonymous elector Apportionment Audits...
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    juntas differ from the directorial system by not being elected. Utilizing sortition to select multiple executives can lead to a directorial system. In the...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to politics and political science: Politics – the exercise of power; process by which...
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  • Plurality Primary Partisan Nonpartisan Proportional Recall Retention Snap Sortition Two-round system Unfair Terminology Anonymous elector Apportionment Audits...
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  • government where people are randomly selected from the citizenry through sortition to either act as general governmental representatives or to make decisions...
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    democracy in USA Related Direct election Citizens' assembly Citizen's jury List of direct democracy parties Ballot title Sortition Politics portal v t e...
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    discoveries in the Athenian agora. He describes eleven kleroterion fragments: Sortition Lottery machine Dibbell, Julian (September 1998). "Info Tech of Ancient...
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