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Would this even work with a parliarment? If you got 500 people randomly selected, could they even decide anything?
by k__ 6y ago
Would this even work with a parliarment?
If you got 500 people randomly selected, could they even decide anything?
- lolc 6y agoSure they can decide, depending on how the decision process is set up. If they can vote on proposals and decide by unqualified majority, for example. You'd get a decision every time. (If you assume a tie-breaker rule like even votes mean no.) Of course the question remains whether decision by unqualified majority is a good thing.
- 317070 6y agoThe common example for the "would this even work as a parliament" is the EU parliament. It has 705 seats, and is filled with people coming from ±150 different parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_political_parties_in_Europe_by_pancontinental_organisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_political_parties_in_... It has a very performant track record. It is not organised as your typical parliament, and has a lot of structure to make this work, such as organising in groups which mostly bridge elections. Of course, these are mostly seasoned politicians. But I reckon a similar structure would work for a sortition based parliament.