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Works involving Oliver Dowlen

  • The Political Potential of Sortition

    A study of the random selection of citizens for public office
    (Author)

    The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community.

  • Sortition

    Theory and Practice
    (Edited by)

    Essays deriving from the conference "Selection by Lottery: Theory and Practice" held in 2008 under the auspices of Sciences Po, in Paris.

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  • Lady Mary Shepherd
    Selected Writings

  • Thomas Reid on Religion

  • The Demarchy Manifesto
    For Better Public Policy
    John Burnheim

  • ZAP
    Free Speech and Tolerance in the Light of the Zero Aggression Principle
    Gerard Casey

  • The Tribe
    The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity
    Ben Cobley

  • Sortition and Democracy
    History, Tools, Theories

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    Continuous Novelty as the Ground of Creative Advance
    Jason W. Brown

  • The Chamberlain Legacy
    Charles Nettlefold

  • The Nature of Goods and the Goods of Nature
    Why anti-globalisation is not the answer
    Estefania Santacreu-Vasut

  • Logic, Truth and Meaning
    Writings of G.E.M. Anscombe