@misc{10481/95713,
year = {2019},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/95713},
abstract = {The use of sortition accompanies the renewal of debates on democracy. In this chapter,
following a brief overview of a few general traits pertaining to the political use of sortition,
we will study its fundamental contributions on three levels. First of all, we will analyze how
random selection can contribute to renewing the debate about the knowledge necessary to
participate politically. For that we will develop four logical possibilities following the
discussion between Socrates and Protagoras in Plato’s homonymous dialogue, and,
subsequently, they will be exemplified through the debate regarding sortition in the Spanish
political party Podemos as context for reference. Secondly, we will address the problem of
sortition and its double potential to motivate participation and demotivate unwanted
behaviour and profiles. In this case, illustrative examples will be taken stemming from the
authors’ own ethnographic experience. Lastly, it will be argued that sortition serves to
produce a particular moral content within political participation, based on the idea that
politics are a civic virtue, essential to the development of human capabilities, that must be
stimulated and distributed en masse. This perspective contrasts with logics deeply rooted in
activist environments that, often hinder the declared objectives of those who are members of
them, specially the alternation, when we think of political participation, between the ideology
of the gift and the professional one.},
organization = {Research project I+D FFI2014-53792-R (2015-2017)},
organization = {Unit of Scientific Excellence FiloLab-UGR},
publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
keywords = {Sortition},
keywords = {Democracy},
title = {Democracy and sortition. Arguments in favor of randomness},
author = {Costa Delgado, Jorge and Moreno Pestaña, José Luis},
}