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About the Book About the Author Also by David Van Reybrouck Title Page Cover Epigraph I SYMPTOMS Enthusiasm and mistrust: The paradox of democracy Crisis of legitimacy: Support is crumbling Crisis of efficiency: Declining vigour II DIAGNOSES It’s the fault of politicians: The diagnosis of populism It’s the fault of democracy: The diagnosis of the technocracy It’s the fault of representative democracy: The diagnosis of direct democracy It’s the fault of electoral-representative democracy: A new diagnosis III PATHOGENESIS A democratic procedure: Drawing lots (antiquity and Renaissance) An aristocratic procedure: Elections (eighteenth century) The democratisation of elections: A bogus process (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) IV REMEDIES The revival of sortition: Deliberative democracy (late twentieth century) Democratic innovation in practice: An international quest (2004–2013) Democratic innovation in the future: Allotted assemblies Blueprint for a democracy based on sortition Timely appeal for a bi-representative system Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

Who reads Against Elections: The Case for Democracy?

Author

David Van Reybrouck

Publisher

The Bodley Head

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.13 / 5 (133 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13