Sortition
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In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e., by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.
A kleroterion in the Ancient Agora Museum (Athens)
USCAR Court select juries by sortition.
Drawing straws within a small group: one of four matches is broken to be shorter than the others, and the four are presented to the group to draw from, the chooser of the short match being selected
A session of a German citizens' assembly in 2019. The participants sit around tables for deliberation in small groups.
Deliberative democracy
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Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. It often shows characteristics of both consensus decision-making and majority
Sortition
…officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy. Sortition is often classified as a method for both direct democracy and deliberative democracy. Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common-law systems. What has changed in recent years is the increased number of…
Call for the establishment of deliberative democracy seen at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear