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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.

Featured Titles

  • Sortition and Democracy
    History, Tools, Theories

  • Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973

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

  • Radical Transformation
    The Unexpected Interplay of Consciousness and Reality
    Imants Barušs

  • Don't Believe What You Think
    Arguments for and against SCAM
    Edzard Ernst

  • British Idealism and International Thought
    The Development of Human Rights
    Nazli Pinar Kaymaz

  • Mary Catherine Bateson
    Compositions in Living Cybernetics

  • Charles, The Alternative King
    An Unauthorised Biography
    Edzard Ernst

  • The Architecture of Ideas
    The Life and Work of Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetician

  • The Prophets of Doom
    Neema Parvini