- In governance,
sortition is the
selection of
public officials or
jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in
order to
obtain a
representative sample. In ancient...
- an
oligarchic institution and most
political offices were
filled using sortition, also
known as allotment, by
which officeholders were
chosen by lot. Electoral...
- core
principle of
Algorand consensus is the
cryptographic "self"
sortition. The
sortition procedure runs
locally and privately, on each node of the network...
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Cleromancy is a form of
sortition (casting of lots) in
which an
outcome is
determined by
means that
normally would be
considered random, such as the rolling...
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direct democracy might entail p****ing
executive decisions, the use of
sortition,
making laws,
directly electing or
dismissing officials, and conducting...
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Drawing lots or
drawing straws is a
selection method, or a form of
sortition, that is used by a
group to
choose one
member of the
group to
perform a task...
-
rather than
acquiring their positions by
inheritance or
sortition (at the Greco-Roman time,
sortition was
conventionally regarded as the prin****l characteristic...
- dilemmas. With
Athenian democracy as the most
famous government to use
sortition,
theorists and
politicians have used citizens' ****emblies and
other forms...
-
government where people are
randomly selected from the
citizenry through sortition to
either act as
general governmental representatives or to make decisions...
- in
order to
randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a form of
sortition which inherently has two
possible outcomes. Coin
flipping was
known to...
