Hannah Arendt Center presents:
Hannah Arendt Center Public Debate
Part of the Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Online
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. How can we revitalize our democracy today? How can we make our representative democracies more participatory? Might “sortition”—a system whereby governmental representatives are chosen by lottery instead of by election—provide an answer?
Learn more about the Hannah Arendt Center Special Webinar here:
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/99620625005?pwd=VHpMYUJFM0FqVnBNbTcrbE5xYU9xZz09
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Please join the Bard Debate Union, the Hannah Arendt Center, and the Center for Civic Engagement for a PUBLIC DEBATE on the question:
Should federal officeholders in the United States be determined through sortition instead of election?
Hannah Arendt writes: “Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”Should federal officeholders in the United States be determined through sortition instead of election?
The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. How can we revitalize our democracy today? How can we make our representative democracies more participatory? Might “sortition”—a system whereby governmental representatives are chosen by lottery instead of by election—provide an answer?
Learn more about the Hannah Arendt Center Special Webinar here:
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/99620625005?pwd=VHpMYUJFM0FqVnBNbTcrbE5xYU9xZz09
Meeting ID: 996 2062 5005
Passcode: 774095