Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The casting of lots; determination by lot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Selection or appointment by lot.
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- noun
selection by drawinglots
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn
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Examples
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Our legal tradition does provide, however, about the only mechanism that has ever been found that can avoid the public choice problem: sortition, which is supposed to be used in the selection of trial and grand juries, but which today is too often not used at all for grand juries.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law: 2009
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He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.
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He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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He writes: Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot.
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There are other things I would favor, such as sortition based election schemes (1), and social policy bonds (2), but this post is already quite long.
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Like most people working in the field (including Anthony Barnett and the present author) Fishkin thought he had invented this system (known technically as 'sortition') only to discover that the Athenians beat him to it 2,400 years ago.
openDemocracy Keith Sutherland 2010
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For example, I seldom find much about how juries were established to avoid the public choice problem, and how they, and other varieties of sortition, seem to be the only solutions anyone has found to the problems.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law Now Available: 2009
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As we have seen, neither election nor appointment avoids the public choice problem, although there is an opportunity to apply the insights of sortition to the selection of judges, by appointing them not to particular courts, but to a general pool of judges, randomly assigned to courts and cases.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law: 2009
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In a practice known as sortition, Greek citizens over the age of 30 were enlisted to debate governmental matters from city finances to military strategy.
Citizens’ assemblies: are they the future of democracy? Eva Talmadge 2023
adoarns commented on the word sortition
A method of choosing decision-makers by lottery. This is how Athenian democracy largely worked (with exceptions such as the election of strategoi or generals).
February 7, 2008