Thanks for reading my Substack post (I’m copying my response from there to here).
It seems like your major concerns for using sortition to legislate would be empowering the bureaucratic apparatus surrounding them and the sorition body would lack the expertise for the complicated policies required in modern societies.
Terry Bouricious has influenced my thinking on this heavily.
https://democracycreative.substack.com/p/politicians-and-competence TL;DR the competence that elections select for is not what is wanted. Elections apply a very strong filter. (Note this does reference the Dunning-Kruger effect, which, a la the replication crisis, seems to be disputed now.)
https://democracycreative.substack.com/p/political-expertise TL;DR the term “political expertise” is fuzzy, oftentimes, politicans expertise is in securing funding and ~95% of legislating is done by staffers at present, and where executive expertise is needed (like in your examples of judges) sortition can select it best.
Thanks for reading my Substack post (I’m copying my response from there to here).
It seems like your major concerns for using sortition to legislate would be empowering the bureaucratic apparatus surrounding them and the sorition body would lack the expertise for the complicated policies required in modern societies.
Terry Bouricious has influenced my thinking on this heavily.
https://democracycreative.substack.com/p/politicians-and-competence
TL;DR the competence that elections select for is not what is wanted. Elections apply a very strong filter. (Note this does reference the Dunning-Kruger effect, which, a la the replication crisis, seems to be disputed now.)
https://democracycreative.substack.com/p/political-expertise
TL;DR the term “political expertise” is fuzzy, oftentimes, politicans expertise is in securing funding and ~95% of legislating is done by staffers at present, and where executive expertise is needed (like in your examples of judges) sortition can select it best.
Also, I recommend the last post on Assemble America’s blog by Paul Melman:
https://assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/there-is-no-meritocracy-without-lottocracy
Personally, I’m not a great fan of massive nation-states, so I wouldn’t be upset if they shrunk.