Rethinking Criminal Law and Family Status
In: Yale Law Journal, Band 119, S. 1864-1903
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In: Yale Law Journal, Band 119, S. 1864-1903
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In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 697-698
ISSN: 1537-5927
Hélene Landemore's Open Democracy challenges today's democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of participatory opportunities, from enhanced forms of direct democracy, to internet crowdsourcing, to representation through random selection to a citizens' assembly:"representing and being represented in turn" (p. xvii). Her aim:to replace citizen consent with citizen power. The critics advance both praise and misgivings. Joshua Cohen asks if Landemore's innovations are best understood as supplements or alternatives to the current system. Daniele Cammack argues for the significance of open mass meetings as well as smaller representative bodies. Peter Stone considers citizens' assemblies inadequate for popular sovereignty. Christopher Achen warns of problems in accurate representation, through both self-selection into the lottery and domination in the discussion. Ethan Lieb argues that particular innovations are useful only in some contexts, and that in each citizens should learn their appropriate role responsibilities. Landemore responds by agreeing, clarifying and rebutting.
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