2016
DOI: 10.7202/1038213ar
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Les élections sont-elles essentielles à la démocratie ?

Abstract: En dépit de débats nourris sur la délibération et la représentation démocratiques, la question de la justification de l’élection comme mode de désignation des gouvernants a été peu abordée par la philosophie politique contemporaine. Cette question est pourtant importante. Une confrontation avec l’alternative que pourrait constituer le tirage au sort d’une assemblée représentative permet d’identifier les vertus spécifiques de l’élection au regard de quatre critères de légitimité démocratique : le consentement e… Show more

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“…Other political theorists are nevertheless more skeptical about the democratic virtues of minipublics (Chambers, 2009; Pourtois, 2016). Most notably, Christina Lafont (2015) argues that the focus on micro-deliberative settings may lead to bypassing deliberation in the public sphere and create a new form of elites detached from the mass public.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Other political theorists are nevertheless more skeptical about the democratic virtues of minipublics (Chambers, 2009; Pourtois, 2016). Most notably, Christina Lafont (2015) argues that the focus on micro-deliberative settings may lead to bypassing deliberation in the public sphere and create a new form of elites detached from the mass public.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This chamber would exist alongside the elected first chamber, whose prerogatives would remain untouched. The main reason for limiting the use of sortition to the designation of the second (or additional) chamber 2 is that elections have some virtues that sortition lacks, in particular the possibilities of universal participation, consent and contestation (Pourtois, 2016).…”
Section: Rejuvenating Representationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a way, it makes accountability unnecessary. If the function of sortition is to select a diversity of interests and worldviews, then SR are legitimate in defending their interests and pursuing their preferred policies without having to account for their decisions (Pourtois, 2016;Sutherland, 2011). But this may not be seen as sufficient, and people would surely need to consent to the use of sortition before the reform is acted.…”
Section: Legitimacy and Accountabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Fourth, the social diversity that random selection generates within the assembly would also contribute to increasing the diversity of perspectives, experiences, and knowledge, and thereby improve the epistemic quality of deliberations and decisions taken by the assembly. Last, sortition would finally neutralize partisan logics which pervert political deliberation (Pourtois, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%