- In governance,
sortition (also
known as
selection by lottery,
selection by lot, allotment, demarchy, stochocracy,
aleatoric democracy,
democratic lottery...
- is to make a
random selection, and may
refer to: Cleromancy, a form of
sortition in
which an
outcome is
determined by
means that
normally would be considered...
- an
oligarchic institution and most
political offices were
filled using sortition, also
known as allotment, by
which officeholders were
chosen by lot. Electoral...
-
Cleromancy is a form of
sortition (casting of lots) in
which an
outcome is
determined by
means that
normally would be
considered random, such as the rolling...
- The
Sortition Law (Portuguese: Lei do Sorteio),
officially Law No. 1,860 of 4
January 1908,
introduced compulsory military service for the
Brazilian Armed...
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Drawing lots or
drawing straws is a
selection method, or a form of
sortition, that is used by a
group to
choose one
member of the
group to
perform a task...
-
Referendum Right to
petition Right to
protest Right to
candidacy Right to vote
Sortition Territorial peace theory Tyranny of the
majority Voting War referendum...
-
There have been
various proposals to
integrate sortition into
government structures. The idea is that
sortition could introduce a new
dimension of representation...
- only
wealthy males could vote, and the
Athenian democracy,
which used
sortition to
elect candidates,
almost always male, Gr****,
educated citizens holding...
-
established in 1115, was led by the
Signoria whose members were
chosen by
sortition. In 10th–15th
century Frisia, a
distinctly non-feudal society, the right...