Refined Proposal for Sortition-Based Governance in the Philippines A Hybrid Model with a High-Standard Filtering Mechanism for Selecting Leaders, Including the President & Prime Minister To eliminate political dynasties, corruption, and incompetence, this refined proposal replaces national elections for the President and Prime Minister with an advanced sortition system that ensures only the most highly qualified individuals are selected.
https://philarchive.org/rec/MALRPF
The United States isn’t even the only country with a burgeoning sortition movement—though it appears to be the only one where someone tried to advance said movement by blowing themselves up.
An Australian author named Tim Dunlop puts forth an audacious defense of sortition in his recent book, “The Future of Everything,” declaring that “voting has come to actively undermine “the will of the people” and we need a system that will restore their primacy. Sortition is that system.”
Declaring that the current system of western elections is “constructed in such a way as to exclude citizen participation—or make it extremely difficult or uncomfortable,” Dunlap calls for the formation of a “People’s House” made of randomly chosen citizens to debate and vote upon legislation.
SortitionIreland.org, the UK’s Sortition Foundation, and Belgian political scientist David Van Reybrouck all advocate for some form of government-by-random-lots in their country.