[lbo-talk] Chazelle: Jury Duty Democracy

[Matthias Wasser]

The primary problem with sortition, I think, is that legislators would lack
a lot of the technical expertise we take for granted under electoral
democracy.

It would probably improve if you had each year's assembly assigned to five
years of intense education beforehand, which would concentrate a lot of
power in the hands of the elite educators, but not more, neccessarily, than
would be consequent in any advanced industrial society, along with direct
election of technocrats - a Cabinet without a President.