Sortition gets a plug in an article recently published in the Yorkshire Bylines, entitled “Sortition Revolution: A Bold Plan to Avert Civilisation’s Collapse.” The article can be found here:
The author is Peter Garbutt, a Green Party councillor in Sheffield: https://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/about-us/councillors/councillor-peter-garbutt/
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t detail much of a case for government by Citizens’ Assemblies; Garbutt seems to take both them and UBI (universal basic income) as self-evidently good. Moreover, it relies upon a number of extremely dubious claims. (I hardly think that a concern with economic growth is some sort of con foisted upon the masses by the ruling class.) Nonetheless, this seems to be the latest attempt to connect green politics with sortition.
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Bit by bit, sortitional democracy is establishing itself as the radical Left’s favoured system of governance. Heartening to see!
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But we also need conservatives and libertarians, etc. arguing for sortition. Giving it a left flavor is actually a problem for the effort. The potential appeal is there, if the spokespeople are available… Distain for elite politicians crosses ideological boundaries. Suspicion about a “deep state” can lead to the notion of giving real power to ordinary people. Etc.
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>But we also need conservatives and libertarians, etc. arguing for sortition.
Yes that’s very true. I’m coming to the view that sortition fits best with a republican (lower case) mixed-constitution model. The time is right to challenge the perception that sortition is necessarily connected to deliberative democracy. In terms of Camila Vergara’s distinction between elitist and plebian (Machiavellian) republicanism, sortition fits better with the latter than the former.
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For the Machiavellian case for sortition, see: https://equalitybylot.com/2011/04/14/machiavellian-democracy/
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