Glasgow reacts to Rishi Sunak's national service plans
We asked the people of Glasgow what they thought about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plans to introduce a form of national service.
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We asked the people of Glasgow what they thought about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plans to introduce a form of national service.
JOURNAL NAME: ABSTRACT: Though considered the most democratic method of allocating citizens to office in Classical Greece, sortition (selection by lot) has never been adopted on a large scale by modern democracies (except for juries) and has fallen into oblivion. Recently, however, some political theorists, motivated by deep disappointment with current electoral practices, have been advocating a return to sortition without being sufficiently aware of the complexities involved in their ancient Athenian model. This study tries to explain the roots and ideology of sortition, the ways in which i...
Rhodes, P. J. (2003). Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology. London Duckworth.