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Over the last decades, sortition (or random selection) has emerged at the margin of representative democracies. In the wake of the deliberative democracy turn, sortition is used for composing advisory citizens' panels that make recommendations regarding various policy issues. Today, some political actors and theorists go one step further by advocating the creation of sortition assemblies. They aim to bring random selection at the heart of representative system by conferring a decision-making power to randomly selected citizens. The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess the views of citizens and parliamentarians towards such a proposal with data collected in Belgium. While in most Western democracies the idea of a sortition assembly is typically known by a limited number of activists, the question is increasingly debated in the Belgian pubic sphere. Several political leaders have indeed publicly defended the transformation of the second chamber into a sortition chamber. Drawing on two original surveys (one with a representative sample of the population and another with current parliamentarians), this paper seeks to capture how these two groups react to the idea of a sortition chamber. Our findings indicate that, while a majority in both groups rejects the idea, a significant minority of citizens and, to a lesser extent, of parliamentarians do support it. We investigate the profile of those who support and oppose the proposal as well as the reasons they provide to justify their position. In so doing, this paper reflects on the plausibility of introducing sortition in a contemporary polity.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Energy Transition -- Sustainability Strategies and the Problem of the Rebound Effect -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Efficiency Strategy -- 3 Consistency Strategy -- 4 Sufficiency Strategy -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Energy Transition Law and Economics -- 1 Costs of the Energy Transition -- 2 A Short History of Energy Transitions -- 3 Policy Choices: The Legal/Constitutional Framework -- 3.1 Energy Supply and Sovereignty -- 3.2 Policy Choices in Europe -- 3.2.1 Market Liberalisation -- 3.2.2 Climate Change and Carbon Free Energy -- 3.2.3 Phasing Out Nuclear Energy -- 4 Examples of Limiting Individual Choices in the Energy Market -- 4.1 The Emissions Trading Scheme -- 4.2 Contributing to the Costs of the Supply Net -- 4.3 Mechanism for Cost Allocation of Renewable Energies -- 4.4 Exclusion of Foreign Electricity Producers from the Cost Covering Feed-in Tariff -- 4.5 Allocating the Exit from Nuclear Energy Costs -- 5 Prospects for a Law and Economics Approach? -- 6 The Legal Duty for an Economic Analysis -- References -- Energy Transition in Switzerland -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Most Utilized Energy Forms -- 1.2 Decarbonization and Withdrawal from Nuclear Energy -- 1.3 Market Challenges -- 2 Governmental Incentives -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Current Feed-in Tariff System (``KEV System´´) -- 2.3 New Market Incentives According to the Energy Strategy 2050 -- 2.3.1 Main Goals of the Energy Strategy 2050 -- 2.3.2 First Measure Package -- 2.3.3 Second Measure Package (2021-2050) -- 3 Appraisal -- References -- The Interplay Between Liberalization and Decarbonization in the European Internal Energy Market for Electricity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Materialization of the EU Internal Energy Market.