{"product_id":"the-lottocratic-mentality-defending-democracy-against-lottocracy-hardcover","title":"The Lottocratic Mentality: Defending Democracy Against Lottocracy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCristina LaFont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNadia Urbinati\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years there has been great interest in new forms of citizen participation, such as citizens' assemblies or deliberative polls that involve ordinary citizens in political decision-making. Many see these innovations as the best solution to the current crisis of democracy. The most radical among them propose replacing elections with the random selection of ordinary citizens, transforming electoral democracy into a lottocracy. These developments are driven by a lottocratic mentality that is deeply transforming our understanding of democracy, political equality, representation, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Lottocratic Mentality\u003c\/em\u003e, Lafont and Urbinati focus on this way of thinking, which is flourishing in public debates, inspiring the organization of citizens' assemblies worldwide, and bridging democratic and nondemocratic regimes in the vision of a unified global order based on problem-solving allotted assemblies, free from electoral competition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors' analysis shows that it amounts to a worrisome form of \u003cem\u003etechnopopulism\u003c\/em\u003e that justifies conferring legislative power on randomly selected assemblies based on a mixture of populist and technocratic grounds. This lottocratic mentality legitimizes the anti-democratic idea that the many should be \"ruled\" by \"the few\" chosen by chance. Against this view, they show how lottery-based institutions could be used with the democratic aim of empowering the citizenry, but only if the lottocratic mentality is rejected.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCristina Lafont, \u003cem\u003eHarold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University\u003c\/em\u003e, Nadia Urbinati, \u003cem\u003eKyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Columbia University in the City of New York\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCristina Lafont is Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, where she is the director of the Program in Critical Theory and co-director of the research group on Global Capitalism and Law. She has held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam and has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain), the University Carlos III in Madrid, and the Universidad Autónoma de México. Cristina is editor-in-chief of the journal \u003cem\u003eConstellations\u003c\/em\u003e and is the recipient (with Alex Guerrero) of the 2022 Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University in New York. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, University Center for Human Values (Princeton). She has been a visiting professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy), Bocconi University, SciencesPo, and UNICAMP (Brazil). Nadia co-edited the academic journal \u003cem\u003eConstellations\u003c\/em\u003e, with Andrew Arato, and is a columnist for RAI television and some Italian newspapers, including \u003cem\u003eDomani\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.23 x 6.47 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45862756712645,"sku":"9780192890627","price":76.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/3OGc4c8pVP9780192890627.webp?v=1771571901","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-lottocratic-mentality-defending-democracy-against-lottocracy-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}