[lbo-talk] Would Randomly-Selected Politicians Improve Democracy?

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Fri May 13 11:31:25 PDT 2011


It would be interesting to find out. Brian Martin, an Australian physicist and social scientist, has written quite a bit on "demarchy":

http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/demarchy.html

Juries are selected somewhat randomly, and, in my experience, they perform no worse than elective assemblies, and they are considerably less corrupt.

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


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