Pensar el sorteo. Modos de selección, marcos deliberativos y principios democráticos

Abstract

How could we be thinking sortition efficiently? My proposal is to construct a general theory of sortition in a comparative approach. A broad study seems necessary in order to grasp the theoretical constants, despite the empirical diversity of sortition concrete uses. First, I shall compare sortition to the three other selection modes: election, nomination and certification. Second, I will analyse the deliberative frameworks, that is to say "who decides what how". Third, I will distinguish four democratic principles of sortition: equality, impartiality, representativeness and legitimacy. My first research hypothesis is that sortition is likely to offer a greater equality, impartiality and representativeness. My second hypothesis is that sortition is the only method of selection producing a specific form, a humility-legitimacy when the three other selection modes are producing a superiority-legitimacy, where the principal is declared superior to the agent through the selection process.