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Randviscracy: the Return of Athenian Democracy & the Case for Selection by Lot
Summary
The meaning of democracy has changed over time. The original democracy of the Athenians primarily used random selection, now known as sortition, to select government officials. This was done because the Athenians understood that elections are popularity contests easily influenced by the rich and powerful, which leads to institutional capture. In this book Corey Daniels examines the problem with modern representative democracy, the history of selection by lot from its religious roots in cleromancy to the golden era of Athenian democracy and more modern incarnations including Venice (the selection of the Doge) and how the founders of America sought to mix the forms of government that the classical writers defined.
Corey then explains how his form of Athenian democracy, Randviscracy, fixes the problems of representative democracy, prevents its devolution into oligarchy, and also addresses the criticisms of Athenian democracy, primarily through weighting the random selection using IQ and experience to favor the selection of the competent and intelligent.
Randviscracy blocks the formation of clientelism and institutional capture, two of the primary mechanisms which form the deep state bureaucracies.
The book also explores how technology will affect governments in the future. Including chapters on blockchain-based voting systems and artificial intelligence. Corey views both of these as very beneficial to governance in the future and includes how they can be used to improve the security and convenience in both voting and governance.
Paperback
Randviscracy: Ending the Corruption in Government Book
Learn how current governments and societies have been subverted through corruption and how to end it forever.
This system of government, called Randviscracy, takes control back from those who bribe and blackmail politicians and puts in back in the hands of the people by removing malincentives and conflicts of interests.
Imagine a government where bribery and corruption are nearly impossible.
Randviscracy minimizes corruption by extensive use of randomly selected panels. This ends the practice of career politicians, what I call professional bribe takers.
Learn how governments are corrupted and how to prevent it from happening again.
Paperback
Format: softcover
Size: A5 measures 148 × 210 millimeters or 5.83 × 8.27 inches
Length: 99 pages
Price: $20
Digital Version
$10
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