This is the yearly call for input for the year’s end review. As in previous years, I would like to have a post or two summarizing the ongoings here at Equality-by-Lot and notable sortition-related events over the passing year. Any input about what should be included is welcome – either through comments below or via email. You are invited to refresh your memory about the events of the passing year by browsing Equality-by-Lot’s archives.
Below are some statistics about the eighth year of Equality-by-Lot. Comparable numbers for last year can be found here.
2017
Page views
Posts
Comments
Jan
2,475
5
74
Feb
2,764
7
100
Mar
3,463
10
259
Apr
3,189
7
127
May
3,071
9
101
June
3,018
6
92
July
2,458
6
158
Aug
2,364
6
117
Sept
2,881
8
98
Oct
3,036
8
116
Nov
3,643
6
175
Dec (to 24th)
2,468
6
90
Total
34,830
84
1,507
Note that page views do not include visits by logged-in contributors – the wordpress system does not count those visits.
Posts were made by 17 authors during 2017. (There were, of course, many other authors quoted and linked to.)
There are currently 322 email and WordPress followers of this blog. In addition there are 279 Twitter followers (@Klerotarian) and 67 Facebook followers.
Searching for “distribution by lot” (with quotes) using Google returns Equality-by-Lot as the 4th result (out of “about 57,100 results”). Searching for “sortition” returns Equality-by-Lot as the 2nd result (out of “about 80,700 results”) – right behind the sortition entry at Wikipedia.
Happy holidays and a happy new year to Equality-by-Lot readers, commenters and posters. Keep up the good fight for democracy!
This is the yearly call for input for the year’s end review. As in previous years, I would like to have a post or two summarizing the ongoings here at Equality-by-Lot and notable sortition-related events over the passing year. Any input about what should be included is welcome – either through comments below or via email. You are invited to refresh your memory about the events of the passing year by browsing Equality-by-Lot’s archives.
A June 26 Current Affairs article must be the most pro-sortition editorial to appear in mainstream media in recent history. More importantly, it oozes with wit that justifiably pillories America’s “intolerable” Congress. The arguments here are familiar but are combined in an unforgettably entertaining way.
It begins with the sad shape of Congress.
The data confirm that Congresspeople have a lower approval rating than marketing executives and bubonic plague.
Second, it points out that Congress is not “representative” in the demographic sense.
Take our current Congress, which is 80% male, 95% college-educated, and 50.8% millionaires. The population it “represents” is 50% male, 30% college-educated, and 5% millionaires. That’s not even close
It then moves on to the evidence that “representation of interests” is a fantasy, citing Gilens and Page.
If your Congressman (or Congresswoman, but probably Congressman) puts forward the kinds of policies that you yourself would wish to see advanced, why does it matter whether you and he happen to have wildly different backgrounds? That would be an excellent argument, if Congress usually put forward policies that Americans agree with. Alas, it does not. One Princeton study estimates that, statistically speaking, the preferences of 90% of the American electorate have a “near-zero” impact on policymaking. And a number of highly-publicized legal reforms with a broad popular mandate, such as closing the gun show loophole, have never made it anywhere near the President’s desk. How is that possible in a “representative” Congress?
Below are some statistics about the seventh year of Equality-by-Lot. Comparable numbers for last year can be found here.
2016
Page views
Posts
Comments
Jan
1,664
8
161
Feb
1,573
11
153
Mar
2,075
20
173
Apr
1,699
12
128
May
1,534
9
78
June
1,818
9
66
July
1,961
7
87
Aug
1,978
9
91
Sept
2,367
11
181
Oct
2,905
8
212
Nov
2,966
8
139
Dec (to 29th)
2,232
8
58
Total
24,772
120
1,527
Note that page views do not include visits by logged-in contributors – the wordpress system does not count those visits.
Posts were made by 17 authors during 2016. (There were, of course, many other authors quoted and linked to.)
There are currently 268 email and WordPress followers of this blog. In addition there are 203 Twitter followers (@Klerotarian) and 67 Facebook followers.
Searching for “distribution by lot” (with quotes) using Google returns Equality-by-Lot as the 2nd result (out of “about 18,900 results”). Searching for “sortition” returns Equality-by-Lot as the 2nd result (out of “about 62,600 results”) – right behind the sortition entry at Wikipedia.
Happy holidays and happy new year to Equality-by-Lot readers, commenters and posters. Keep up the good fight for democracy!
This is the yearly call for input for the year’s end review. As in previous years, I would like to have a post or two summarizing the ongoings here at Equality-by-Lot and notable sortition-related events over the passing year. Any input about what should be included is welcome – either through comments below or via email. You are invited to refresh your memory about the events of the passing year by browsing Equality-by-Lot’s archives.
Below are some statistics about the sixth year of Equality-by-Lot. Comparable numbers for last year can be found here.
2015
Page views
Posts
Comments
Jan
2,648
15
256
Feb
3,453
10
284
Mar
3,168
8
169
Apr
2,497
7
137
May
2,947
13
124
June
2,593
5
137
July
1,933
5
72
Aug
1,966
5
94
Sept
2,592
11
136
Oct
2,455
10
189
Nov
2,109
12
185
Dec (to 28th)
1,671
6
109
Total
30,032
107
1,891
Note that page views do not include visits by logged-in contributors – the wordpress system does not count those visits.
Posts were made by 15 authors during 2015. (There were, of course, many other authors quoted and linked to.)
There are currently 223 email and WordPress followers of this blog. In addition there are 137 Twitter followers (@Klerotarian) and 67 Facebook followers.
Searching for “distribution by lot” (with quotes) using Google returns Equality-by-Lot as the 3rd result (out of “about 16,900 results”). Searching for “sortition” returns Equality-by-Lot as the 3rd result (out of “about 62,200 results”).
Happy holidays and happy new year to Equality-by-Lot readers, commenters and posters. Keep up the good fight for democracy!
This is the yearly call for input for the year’s end review. As in previous years, I would like to have a post or two summarizing the ongoings here at Equality-by-Lot and notable sortition-related events over the passing year. Any input about what should be included is welcome – either through comments below or via email.
Again, I suggest having some sort of an award for sortition-related activity, advocacy, or writing, where the awardee is selected by a vote among Equality-by-Lot readers. Nominations are hereby solicited as well.
This is the yearly call for input for the year’s end review. As in previous years, I would like to have a post or two summarizing the ongoings here at Equality-by-Lot and notable sortition-related events over the passing year. Any input about what should be included is welcome – either through comments below or via email. You are invited to refresh your memory about the events of the passing year by browsing Equality-by-Lot’s archives.
Adam Cronkright
Ali
Ahmed R. Teleb
avanderven
avergne
Alex Kovner
azakaras
Brett Hennig
campbellwallace
Simon Threlkeld
Nick Coccoma
codyhipskind
Common Lot Sortitionist
Conall Boyle
constitutionalism
davidschecter
graytmatter
gtridimas
H.J. Hofkirchner
John Burnheim
jgarry20151
Jochen Krattenmacher
johnedwardtaylor
johnhuang865
Jonathan Crock
keithsutherland
Jacob Richter
kkoreilly
lukewhito
SimonPek
Nathan El
Nicholas Gruen
Owen Shaffer
Patrick Chalmers
Paul Gölz
peterstone
Pierre-Etienne Vandamme
pronfeld
Emil
rcaze
richwbrown
Roger Knights
roslynfuller
Pierre-Etienne Vandamme
shaharavin
tbouricius
Ted Wachtel
Joshua Laferriere
theodorestathis
towardsautonomyblog
Wayne Liebman
Yoram Gat
Oliver Milne
Equality by lot 