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The Egalitarian Quality of Lottocracy

2019

Abstract. Recently, political models which employ lottery-selection instead of ballot voting have been proposed. Proponents argue that such  lottocratic models can improve the representation of the population and reduce undemocratic influences. In this paper, I argue that these proposals also satisfy the egalitarian requirement of democracy. I claim that having an  equal chance to be selected by lot  is equally egalitarian as having  an equally weighed vote  for two reasons: first, having a chance to be selected by lot satisfies the requirement for  political justice better than electoral democracy and second, it provides citizens with equal political  influence  and not merely equal  impac…