Sortition and democracy. History, instruments, and theories

Special issue
Sortition and democracy. History, instruments, and theories
Special issue, 2019/HS - pages
Pages 7 to 7

Acknowledgements

By Liliane López-Rabatel, Yves Sintomer
Pages 9 to 34

Introduction. The history of sortition in politics: Instruments, practices, and theories

By Liliane López-Rabatel, Yves Sintomer
Pages 35 to 80

Drawing lots in ancient Greece—vocabulary and tools

By Liliane López-Rabatel
Pages 81 to 97

Plato on drawing lots: The foundation of the political community

By Arnaud Macé
Pages 99 to 115

Selection by lot in ancient Athens: From religion to politics

By Paul Demont
Pages 117 to 137

Election and sortition in Ancient Rome: Was there such a thing as a Roman democracy?

By Virginie Hollard
Pages 139 to 156

Sors, sortiri, sortition: Practices and lexicon of the drawing of lots in the Roman world

By Frédérique Biville
Pages 157 to 177

Civic sortition in republican and imperial Rome: Physical instruments and technical logistics

By Julie Bothorel
Pages 179 to 194

Sortition and divination in Ancient Rome. Were the gods involved in casting lots?

By Romain Loriol
Pages 195 to 213

The practices and rhetoric of sortition in medieval public life (thirteenth–fourteenth centuries)

By Lorenzo Tanzini
Pages 215 to 231

Ducal elections, institutional usages, and popular practices: Drawing lots in the Republic of Venice

By Claire Judde de Larivière
Pages 233 to 250

The drawing of lots versus the state: Fate, divine inspiration, and the vocation of town magistrates in seventeenth century France

By Yann Lignereux
Pages 251 to 262

The introduction of sortition in elections in the Republic of Geneva (1691)

By Raphaël Barat
Pages 263 to 281

Kübellos in the canton of Glarus: A unique experience of sortition in politics

By Antoine Chollet, Aurèle Dupuis
Pages 283 to 301

Political representation and the uses of sortition in Mexico: 1808-1857

By Alexei Daniel Serafín Castro
Pages 303 to 342

Appointing officials by drawing lots in late Imperial China (1594-1911)

By Pierre-Étienne Will
Pages 343 to 372

From kleroterion to cryptology: The act of sortition in the twenty-first century— instruments and practices

By Dimitri Courant
Pages 373 to 400

The selection of deliberative mini-publics: Sortition, motivation, and availability

By Jean-Michel Fourniau
Pages 401 to 415

Sortition in French lay juries: A political experience

By Célia Gissinger-Bosse
Pages 417 to 435

Castoriadis and Rancière: Contributions to a philosophy of sortition

By José Luis Moreno Pestaña
Pages 437 to 451

The militant trajectory of the reference to Bernard Manin in French activism for sortition

By Samuel Hayat
Pages 453 to 473

Does random selection make democracies more democratic? How deliberative democracy has depoliticized a radical proposal

By Julien Talpin
Pages 475 to 511

A child drawing lots: The “pathos formula” of political sortition?

By Yves Sintomer
Pages 513 to 519

From one materiality to another: Random selection through the lens of the electoral process

By Yves Déloye