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An option that Kim Stanley Robinson explored is his novels is a kind of draft/jury service model where voters are randomly selected to serve in government. Some
by mprovost 5y ago
An option that Kim Stanley Robinson explored is his novels is a kind of draft/jury service model where voters are randomly selected to serve in government. Sometimes for a whole term, but you can also imagine something like jury service where a group is brought together to decide a single issue. They would have the time to hear both sides of the arguments, make a decision, and then disband.
- bobthepanda 5y agoThis is actually how Athenian democracy worked. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Selection_by_lot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Selection...
- watwut 5y agoYes, but the citizens were only subset of population and the city was smaller then current states. It is quite possible that it would not scale to larger population and general voting rights.
- bobthepanda 5y agoSure, I was just addressing my parent comment's proposal and providing more context. I don't really care for it, although I will have to say it would probably work better in the case of opaque public bodies very few people vote for elections in (e.g. a local American school board)