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Title: Lachlan Umbers
Title: Against Lottocracy
Abstract: Popular dissatisfaction with contemporary democratic institutions
has run high in recent years. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that
political philosophers have begun to turn their attention to possible
alternatives modes of political decision-making. The most interesting and
plausible of these proposals all involve reliance on lotteries in some way
or other - as a means of determining which citizens are to be enfranchised,
as a means of selecting representatives, or as a means of making social
choices. These systems promise improvements in the quality of decisions
made, of the outcomes realised, or in the intrinsic fairness of the
political process, while maintaining the egalitarian appeal of conventional
democratic institutions. My aim in this paper is to defend the relative
merits of universal suffrage, majority rule and electoral representation
against these proposals. I argue that each of these 'lottocratic' systems
would on the one hand be likely to yield undesirable consequences and, on
the other, are inconsistent with individuals' rights as equal, autonomous
agents and are thereby objectionable on non-instrumental grounds also.
These considerations give us reasons, I suggest, to regard conventional
modes of democratic social organisation as the best justified among the set
of inevitably imperfect alternatives.
When: Thu 15 Oct 2015 15:00 - 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
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