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...

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...

an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral...

core principle of Algorand consensus is the cryptographic "self" sortition. The sortition procedure runs locally and privately, on each node of the network...

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...

dilemmas. With Athenian democracy as the most famous government to use sortition, theorists and politicians have used citizens' assemblies and other forms...

direct democracy might entail passing executive decisions, the use of sortition, making laws, directly electing or dismissing officials, and conducting...

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...

rather than acquiring their positions by inheritance or sortition (at the Greco-Roman time, sortition was conventionally regarded as the principal characteristic...

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...

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...

There have been various proposals to integrate sortition into government structures. The idea is that sortition could introduce a new dimension of representation...

Plurality Primary Partisan Nonpartisan Proportional Recall Retention Snap Sortition Two-round system Unfair Terminology Anonymous elector Apportionment Audits...

only wealthy males could vote, and the Athenian democracy, which used sortition to elect candidates, almost always male, Greek, educated citizens holding...

The Sortition Law (Portuguese: Lei do Sorteio), officially Law No. 1,860 of 4 January 1908, introduced compulsory military service for the Brazilian Armed...

The rasga-listas (English: list tearers or list rippers) were resistance movements to the 1874 lottery law for compulsory military service in the Empire...

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...

(2011) To Reason Why (A memoir) Citizens' assembly Deliberative democracy Sortition "John Bernard Burnheim". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 November 2023. Retrieved...

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...

bench trial which relies on one or a few experts. In politics, sometimes sortition is held as an example of what wisdom of the crowd would look like. Decision-making...

Medieval Italy Italian Renaissance Italian city-states Maritime republics Sortition Signoria on Encyclopædia Britannica "Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance...

democracy in USA Related Direct election Citizens' assembly Citizen's jury List of direct democracy parties Ballot title Sortition Politics portal v t e...

epistemic and probabilist argument in favour of democratic inclusion and sortition. Hélène Landemore proposes a new paradigm, "Open Democracy," which rests...

Plurality Primary Partisan Nonpartisan Proportional Recall Retention Snap Sortition Two-round system Unfair Terminology Anonymous elector Apportionment Audits...

Members of a constituent assembly may be elected by popular vote, drawn by sortition, appointed, or some combination of these methods. Assemblies are typically...

government where people are randomly selected from the citizenry through sortition to either act as general governmental representatives or to make decisions...

Plurality Primary Partisan Nonpartisan Proportional Recall Retention Snap Sortition Two-round system Unfair Terminology Anonymous elector Apportionment Audits...

The reform of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, has been a topic of discussion in UK politics for more than...

Plurality Primary Partisan Nonpartisan Proportional Recall Retention Snap Sortition Two-round system Unfair Terminology Anonymous elector Apportionment Audits...

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...