Sortition and the requirement for state impartiality in transitional and developing democracies
Dr Olly Dowlen
ISRF EARLY CAREER FELLOW 2012-13
This study programme is designed to investigate how the use of randomly selected citizens in public offices could help to develop impartial state institutions and so add stability to developing democracies. By exploring and identifying problems relating to factionalism experienced by modern states in transition to democracy or seeking to maintain democratic progress, the study then uses several model schemes to assess how sortition could contribute towards their resolution.
