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> You may want to check out how elections were done in Venice in centuries past. They thought they could randimize their way to fairness too, it looks pretty si
by ardy42 6y ago
> You may want to check out how elections were done in Venice in centuries past. They thought they could randimize their way to fairness too, it looks pretty silly and ineffective in retrospect: https://www.venetoinside.com/hidden-treasures/post/the-election-of-the-doge-of-the-republic-of-venice/ https://www.venetoinside.com/hidden-treasures/post/the-elect...
What specific problem were the Venetians trying to solve with that design, and how did it turn out to be ineffective?
- pklo 6y agoThey were trying to avoid oligarchy, where few powerful families would monopolize the power. It worked remarkaby well, actually: Venetian Republic lasted 1000 years, served as a bulwark against western expansion of the Ottoman empire by running an effective combination of trade engagement and military projection, and was arguably a shining light of western civilization for most of that time. They were done in by the rise of nation-states and loss of income from their Eastern trade, not by failure of their system.